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This volume begins with the establishment of civil equality for Jews in Germany and Austria-Hungary and describes the complexities of their economic and social integration. The contributors explore the challenges that confronted Jews as they encountered both unprecedented opportu...nities and continued resistance to their full emancipation and participation in public life. The book discusses their standing as a minority group within German political and professional life and as a differentiated portion of the German middle class; how they coped with successive waves of political antisemitism; how they continued to adapt traditional religious practices to modernity; and how urban middle-class life transformed Jewish families as well as the role of Jewish women in the domestic and public spheres. This book is part of a four-volume series which offers a portrait of Jewish history in German-speaking countries over nearly four centuries, focusing on periods of political, economic and social change.
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General Audience |
| Reading Age |
General Audience |
| Library of Congress |
History |
| NBS Text |
Sociology & Anthropology: Professional |
| ONIX Text |
Professional and scholarly |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
Meyer, arguably the dean of German-Jewish historians, has assembled a superb team of scholars for an ambitious work of synthesis: a projected four-volume history of German Jewry in modern times. The opening volume ranges broadly over the transitional period to modernity--from the close of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Of particular interest, among a cross-section of fascinating topics covered, are the changing position and status of Jewish women in Germany and discovery of the new understanding and meaning of childhood and children's education within the German-Jewish Enlightenment. Readers will eagerly look forward to future volumes in this series. -- Jewish Book World [The work] has an engaging note of commitment. The result is a narrative -- sensitively translated -- that is judicious but always absorbing... The enterprise will be judged a brilliant success. -- Times Literary Supplement The extraordinary significance of this work cannot be questioned... One can speak with complete justification of a major historigraphical event. -- Die Zeit The tone is sober, the judgments balanced, the coverage comprehensive, and the learning impressive. -- Jewish Chronicle |
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Author's Bio
MICHAEL E. MEYER (series editor) is Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati and International President of the Leo Baeck Institute. MICHAEL BRENNER (assistant series editor) is professor of Jewish history and culture at the University of Munich.
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