Journal article
Improving the Volk: Leon Kellner and the Jewish Toynbee Hall Movement (1900–39)
- Abstract:
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The Jewish Toynbee Hall movement—part moral crusade, part adult education—has almost entirely escaped the attention of historians, as has its prime mover, Leon Kellner. Modeled on London's Toynbee Hall, the first Jewish Toynbee Hall opened in Vienna in December 1900; within a few years, others opened across Habsburg Austria and in Germany and Romania. A Zionist project, the Toynbee Halls were taken over by Bnai Brith in Germany and Austria but remained in nationalist hands further east, part ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Indiana University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Jewish Social Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 24
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 51-79
- Publication date:
- 2019-04-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-10-04
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1527-2028
- ISSN:
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0021-6704
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:924204
- UUID:
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uuid:b627670c-8fec-4c71-ac29-81be19c1b636
- Local pid:
- pubs:924204
- Source identifiers:
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924204
- Deposit date:
- 2018-10-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Trustees of Indiana University
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 The Trustees of Indiana University.
- Notes:
- This is the publisher's version of the article. The final version is available online from the Indiana University Press at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jewisocistud.24.3.03
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