Jewish Emancipation In A German City
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Jewish Emancipation In A German City
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Author : Shulamit S. Magnus
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1997
Jewish Emancipation In A German City written by Shulamit S. Magnus and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
This work seeks to understand how, in nineteenth-century Germany, Jews and non-Jews shaped and experienced Jewish emancipation, a process whereby Jews were freed from ancient discriminatory laws and, over the course of decades, became citizens. Unlike most other works on German Jewish emancipation, this book examines how so fundamental and dramatic a transformation in the relation of Jews and non-Jews was experienced by the people who lived it, how economic, social, political, and ideological forces interacted to bring about change, and how accommodation actually occurred. The book focuses on Cologne, the most populous and economically powerful city in the Rhineland. Jews, excluded since 1424, returned under French Revolutionary rule, but Napoleonic legislation in 1808 compromised their equality and gave city elders an opportunity to reassert Cologne's historic control when the territory passed to Prussia in 1814. A long struggle between municipal and state authorities ensued, with the city hostile to Jewish rights but ultimately losing its bid to exercise local sovereignty over the Jews. The 1840s saw the advent of the railway age, and Cologne's economic and political climate was transformed. The city soon became the center for Rhenish liberal advocacy of Jewish rights, led by regional entrepreneurs in association with Jewish bankers. The author demonstrates, however, that Jewish emancipation was not simply conferred on Jews from above or engineered by financial mavericks in the community. Rather, it occurred as part of a broad societal transformation and as the result of the efforts and behavior of ordinary Jews, whose voices the author records. The book reveals how such Jews responded to the lure of equality and the pressures of continued discrimination in their business and private lives, and shows how their response fostered a new, positive perception of Jews as honorable people deserving of civic inclusion. It also illustrates how Jews, enjoying unprecedented success and acceptance, fought not only for individual rights but for the right of organized Judaism to achieve a secure place in society.
Cologne
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Author : Shulamith Sharon Magnus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Cologne written by Shulamith Sharon Magnus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
Cologne Jewish Emancipation In A German City 1798 1871
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Author : Shulamit S. Magnus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Cologne Jewish Emancipation In A German City 1798 1871 written by Shulamit S. Magnus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Cologne (Germany) categories.
Cologne Jewish Emancipation In A German City 1798 1871
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Author : Shulamith S. Magnus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Cologne Jewish Emancipation In A German City 1798 1871 written by Shulamith S. Magnus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
How Jews Became Germans
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Author : Deborah Hertz
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
How Jews Became Germans written by Deborah Hertz and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with History categories.
A “very readable” history of Jewish conversions to Christianity over two centuries that “tracks the many fascinating twists and turns to this story” (Library Journal). When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, they considered it an urgent priority to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast system of conversion and intermarriage records was created in Berlin, the country’s premier Jewish city. Deborah Hertz’s discovery of these records, the Judenkartei, was the first step on a long research journey that led to this compelling book. Hertz begins the book in 1645, when the records begin, and traces generations of German Jewish families for the next two centuries. The book analyzes the statistics and explores letters, diaries, and other materials to understand in a far more nuanced way than ever before why Jews did or did not convert to Protestantism. Focusing on the stories of individual Jews in Berlin, particularly the charismatic salon woman Rahel Levin Varnhagen and her husband, Karl, a writer and diplomat, Hertz brings out the human stories behind the documents, sets them in the context of Berlin’s evolving society, and connects them to the broad sweep of European history.
Emancipation
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Author : Michael Goldfarb
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-11-03
Emancipation written by Michael Goldfarb and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-03 with History categories.
The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today. Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century Marx, Freud, and Einstein created revolutions in politics, human science, and physics that continue to shape our world. Proust, Schoenberg, Mahler, and Kafka redefined artistic expression. Emancipation reformed the practice of Judaism, encouraged some to imagine a modern nation of their own, and within decades led to the dream of Zionism.
The Making Of The Jewish Middle Class
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Author : Marion A. Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1991-08-15
The Making Of The Jewish Middle Class written by Marion A. Kaplan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-08-15 with History categories.
A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private--familial and religious--lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in the university, paid employment and social service. It analyzes the changing roles of Jewish women as members of an economically mobile, but socially spurned minority. The author emphasizes the crucial role women played in creating the Jewish middle class, as well as their dual role within the Jewish family and community as powerful agents of class formation and acculturation and determined upholders of tradition.
Jews In Berlin Biografien
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Author : Andreas Nachama
language : en
Publisher: Seemann Henschel
Release Date : 2002
Jews In Berlin Biografien written by Andreas Nachama and has been published by Seemann Henschel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
"Berlin was for centuries the center of Jewish life in Germany. Settlement, pogroms, trials against Jews, burnings at the stake and expulsion characterized its history from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Only after the Thirty Years' War did a new era begin. The eighteenth-century Berlin of Moses Mendelssohn was a city of Jewish emancipation and simultaneously a center of enlightenment. In this period and the generations that followed, Jewish Berliners and immigrants made important contributions to the city's economy. Jewish citizens strongly influenced the natural sciences and the city's cultural and literary life. Economic crisis and factors like inflation after World War I made an aggressive form of anti-Semitism possible, one that ultimately led to the death camps of the Holocaust. The last chapter of this illustrated book reports on new beginnings in the post-Shoah age." "This book is intended for everybody. Jews can reread their own history and better understand it. Non Jews can take up the book to realize that Jewish history is an important part of their own. Whether or not Berlin's Jewish past can be revitalized remains to be seen. The question of whether or not Berlin will ever again have a vibrant Jewish life - as it had before 1933 - is also open. Surely, the answer to whether or not this life will be integrated into the life of the city does not lie solely in the hands of its Jews. It depends on society as a whole."--BOOK JACKET.
The German Way Of Jewish Emancipation
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Author : Walter Grab
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The German Way Of Jewish Emancipation written by Walter Grab and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Jews categories.
Pioneers In The Struggle For Jewish Emancipation In Germany
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Author : A. Wolf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1904
Pioneers In The Struggle For Jewish Emancipation In Germany written by A. Wolf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1904 with Jews categories.