Jewish Rural Communities in Germany
Author | : Hermann Schwab |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hermann Schwab |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yehûdā Bôrer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : Hugo Mandelbaum |
Publisher | : Feldheim Pub |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780873063821 |
Author | : Emily C. Rose |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0827613458 |
An absorbing look at the daily lives of rural Jews in eighteenth and nineteenth century Germany. Includes over 75 black and white illustrations, a guide for researchers, maps, and a bibliography.
Author | : יהודה לו בהרר |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Marion A. Kaplan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2005-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195346793 |
From the seventeenth century until the Holocaust, Germany's Jews lurched between progress and setback, between fortune and terrible misfortune. German society shunned Jews in the eighteenth century and opened unevenly to them in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, only to turn murderous in the Nazi era. By examining the everyday lives of ordinary Jews, this book portrays the drama of German-Jewish history -- the gradual ascent of Jews from impoverished outcasts to comfortable bourgeois citizens and then their dramatic descent into genocidal torment during the Nazi years. Building on social, economic, religious, and political history, it focuses on the qualitative aspects of ordinary life -- emotions, subjective impressions, and quotidian perceptions. How did ordinary Jews and their families make sense of their world? How did they construe changes brought about by industrialization? How did they make decisions to enter new professions or stick with the old, juggle traditional mores with contemporary ways? The Jewish adoption of secular, modern European culture and the struggle for legal equality exacted profound costs, both material and psychological. Even in the heady years of progress, a basic insecurity informed German-Jewish life. Jewish successes existed alongside an antisemitism that persisted as a frightful leitmotif throughout German-Jewish history. And yet the history that emerges from these pages belies simplistic interpretations that German antisemitism followed a straight path from Luther to Hitler. Neither Germans nor Jews can be typecast in their roles vis à vis one another. Non-Jews were not uniformly antisemitic but exhibited a wide range of attitudes towards Jews. Jewish daily life thus provides another vantage point from which to study the social life of Germany. Focusing on both internal Jewish life -- family, religion, culture and Jewish community -- and the external world of German culture and society provides a uniquely well-rounded portrait of a world defined by the shifting sands of inclusion and exclusion.
Author | : Steven M. Lowenstein |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1989-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814337511 |
Using organizational bulletins, surveys, interviews, and personal observations and anecdotes, Lowenstein paints a picture of a unique lifestyle now in the process of merging into American Jewry and disappearing. The 20,000 German Jews who fled Hitler's Germany and settled in Washington Heights were unusual in many ways. They preserved their Jewish identity while fostering a culture that was still heavily German—a difficult combination in light of their origins. In his study of this immigrant group, Steven Lowenstein strives for more that a chronicle of their institutions and leaders. He analyzes both the social structure of the community and the folk culture of the immigrants. He deals with such issues as the formal nature of German Jewish cultural style, the relationships between the generations, and intergroup relations. Using organizational bulletins, surveys, interviews, and personal observations and anecdotes, Lowenstein paints a picture of a unique lifestyle now in the process of merging into American Jewry and disappearing.
Author | : Michael Brenner |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1999-01-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0253000572 |
A collection of essays interrogates the nature of Jewish identity in the time between two world wars. The history of Jews in interwar Germany and Austria is often viewed either as the culmination of tremendous success in the economic and cultural realms and of individual assimilation and acculturation, or as the beginning of the road that led to Auschwitz. By contrast, this volume demonstrates a re-emerging sense of community within the German-speaking Jewish population of these two countries in the two decades after World War I. The fresh research presented here shows that while Jews may have experienced a deepening sense of impending crisis and economic decline, a renewal of Jewish communal life took place during these years, as new groupings sprang up, including organizations for youth, for rural Jews, and for political groups such as Zionists and Bundists. Several chapters consider the impact of economic and political crises on German-Jewish family life. Together, these essays form a complex mosaic of German Jewry on the eve of its demise. “An excellent collection . . . well written and cogently argued.” —David N. Myers
Author | : Hermann Schwab |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Country life |
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Author | : Rhonda F. Levine |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001-06-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0742573737 |
This book documents a little-known aspect of the Jewish experience in America. It is a fascinating account of how a group of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany came to dominate cattle dealing in south central New York and maintain a Jewish identity even while residing in small towns and villages that are overwhelmingly Christian. The book pays particular attention to the unique role played by women in managing the transition to the United States, in helping their husbands accumulate capital, and in recreating a German Jewish community. Yet Levine goes further than her analysis of German Jewish refugees. She also argues that it is possible to explain the situations of other immigrant and ethnic groups using the structure/network/identity framework that arises from this research. According to Levine, situating the lives of immigrants and refugees within the larger context of economic and social change, but without losing sight of the significance of social networks and everyday life, shows how social structure, class, ethnicity, and gender interact to account for immigrant adaptation and mobility.