The making of the Jewish middle class : women, family, and identity in Imperial Germany / Marion A. Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Marion A.

Series:

Studies in Jewish history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--History--1800-1933.

Jews.

Middle class Jews.

Jewish women.

Germany.

History.

Jewish women--Germany.

Middle class Jews--Germany.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Burgerij.

Joden.

Vrouwen.

Local Subjects:

Burgerij.

Joden.

Vrouwen.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Summary:

Describes the life of Jewish middle-class women in Wilhelmine Germany. Pp. 148-152, "Anti-Semitism in the University, " state that until about 1905 women students, discriminated against because of their sex, tended to show solidarity by forming organizations open to all, in contrast to the segregated male students' organizations. Russian Jewish women were especially despised, even by German Jewish male students. Pp. 182-185 describe discrimination against Jewish teachers, noting that their chances of employment were highly limited. See also the index under "Anti-Semitism." (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).

Contents:

I: Women and the construction of Bourgeois culture

1. Cultivating respectability: a family enterprise

Housework and household

Motherhood: bringing up German-Jewish children

2. Domestic Judaism: religion and German-Jewish ethnicity

Women in Judaism: personal piety, synagogue, and community

Women in the home: the tenacity and decline of Jewish traditions

3. For love or money: Jewish marriage strategies

To the highest bidder: arranged marriages and dowries, 1871-1918

The dowry chase: critical perspectives

"Modern" marriage in imperial Germany

4. The labor of leisure

What does "leisure" mean to women?

Home and family: domestic ideals and the goals of leisure

Beyond the family: the female world of sociability

II: Jewish women redefine their "place"

5. Jewish women confront academia

Biases against women students

Choices: turning liabilities into assets

Student life

Anti-semitism in the university

6. Double barriers, double burdens: women's employment

Recognized and unrecognized work

Working population

Attitudes toward middle-class women and work

Professional career women

7. Her sister's keeper: women's organizations from the Chevra to feminism

Traditions and social change

From charity to social work

World War I.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-319) and index.

National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish History, Winner, 1992

ISBN:

0195039521

9780195039528

0195093968

9780195093964

OCLC:

22240361

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