From “Kehillah” to Jewish Civil Society
From “Kehillah” to Jewish Civil Society

Summary/Abstract: This work is detailing the last period of the traditional Jewish community in the Romanian space. It was during the 19th century, more precisely since the middle 30s, that this fundamental structure of Jewish life was subjected to a slow, but definite process of erosion. The causes of this process rest both in the Jewish world (the effects of the change incurred to the Jewish outlook, as they now supported “an exit from the ghetto”), under the influence of the Jewish Enlightenment (the Haskallah), as well as of external factors, such as the development of the national state which did not support intermediate collective structures. Given this situation, the Jewish society adopted modern social structures, with different types of organizations. There was an “organizational explosion” that later shaped the Jewish civil society.

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