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Article: Jews and Judaism
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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JEWS AND JUDAISM
JEWS AND JUDAISM.
The term
early modern
applies differently to Jewish than to general European history. Jews experienced no Reformation or Counter-Reformation of their own, nor for that matter were all Jews geographically "European" (between the sixte
enth and eighteenth centuries approximately 30 to 40 percent lived outside of Europe proper). Perhaps for these reasons, nineteenth-century Jewish historians tended to view the modern era of Jewish history as proceeding immediately from a long Middle Ages (akin to the period Marxists traditionally a
scribed to European "feudalism," roughly from the Christianization of the Roman Empire until the French Revolution). ...