| Description |
xiii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [284]-285) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Peter Gay -- Ch. 1. Origins. Beginnings on the Rhine. The Crusades. A People Apart. Anti-Semitism -- Ch. 2. The Institutions of Jewish Life. Communal Organization. Religion and Ritual -- Ch. 3. From the Middle Ages to the Court Jews. The Ghetto of Frankfurt am Main. Women. Gluckel of Hameln. Revivals of Mysticism. The Court Jew. Berlin: A Community of Court Jews -- Ch. 4. The Return to History. The Age of Moses Mendelssohn. Pressures for Change. Emergence into Social Life: The Salons -- Ch. 5. The Struggle for Emancipation. Decades of Ferment. Napoleon and the Aftermath. Solutions. New Ways and New Religions -- Ch. 6. In the Fifty-Year Empire. Jewish Emancipation, 1871. The Magnates. The Middle Classes. Department Stores. In the Community. Modern Anti-Semitism. Rural Jews. East European Jews in Germany -- Ch. 7. The End. The Weimar Republic. The Nazi Period. Emigration. Palestine. The End. |
| Subject |
Jews -- Germany -- History.
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Germany -- Ethnic relations.
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| Indexed Term |
Jews History |
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Germany |
| ISBN |
0300051557 alkaline paper |
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9780300051551 alkaline paper |
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