Toward modernity : the European Jewish model / edited by Jacob Katz.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Immanent factors and external influences in the development of the Haskalah movement in Russia / Emanuel Etkes -- "The heavenly city of Germany" and absolutism à la mode d'Autriche : the rise of the Haskalah in Galicia / Israel Bartal -- The modernization of Viennese Jewry : the impact of German culture in a multi-ethnic state / Robert S. Wistrich -- Caution's progress : the modernization of Jewish life in Prague, 1780-1830 / Hillel J. Kieval -- The historical experience of German Jewry and its impact on the Haskalah and reform in Hungary / Michael Silber -- The history of an estrangement between two Jewish communities : German and French Jewry during the nineteenth century / Michael Graetz. The impact of German-Jewish modernization on Dutch Jewry / Joseph Michman -- Trieste and Berlin : the Italian role in the cultural politics of the Haskalah / Lois C. Dubin -- The Englishness of Jewish modernity in England / Todd M. Endelman -- German-Jewish identity in nineteenth-century America / Michael A. Meyer.