The Jewish response to German culture : from the enlightenment to the Second World War / edited by Jehuda Reinharz and Walter Schatzberg.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Reinharz, Jehuda.

Schatzberg, Walter.

Conference Name:

International Conference on German Jews (1983 : Worcester, Mass.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual life.

Antisemitism.

Judaism.

History.

Germany--Intellectual life--Congresses.

Germany.

Germany--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

Ethnic relations.

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--Congresses.

Jews.

Judaism--Germany--History--Congresses.

Antisemitism--Germany--Congresses.

Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.

Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.

Jews--Intellectual life.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 362 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hanover, NH : Published for Clark University by University Press of New England, 1985.

Summary:

Features studies of German Jews and their relations with the rest of German society in the last two centuries.

Contents:

Jewish emancipation : between Bildung and respectability / George L. Mosse

Moses Mendelssohn as the archetypal German Jew / Alexander Altmann

The Kassel "Ha-Meassef" of 1799 : an unknown contribution to the Haskalah / Walter Röll

Hermann Cohen : Judaism in the context of German philosophy / Nathan Rotenstreich

Reform Jewish thinkers and their German intellectual context / Michael A. Meyer

German culture and the Jews / Jacob Katz

The invisible community : emancipation, secular culture, and Jewish identity in the writings of Berthold Auerbach / David Sorkin

Heine's Jewish writer friends : dilemmas of a generation, 1817-33 / Lothar Kahn

Fin-de-siècle Vienna : the Jewish contribution / Harry Zohn

German-Jewish and German-Christian writers : cooperation in exile / Guy Stern

Wilhelm II and the Kaiserjuden : a problematical encounter / Werner E. Mosse

The dynamics of dissimilation : Ostjuden and German Jews / Shulamit Volkov

"The Jew within" : the myth of "judaization" in Germany / Steven E. Aschheim

Sisterhood under siege : feminism and antisemitism in Germany, 1904-38 / Marion Kaplan

The Zionist response to antisemitism in the Weimar Republic / Jehuda Reinharz

Jewish cultural centers in Nazi Germany : expectations and accomplishments / Kurt Düwell

Lost, stolen, and strayed : the archival heritage of modern German-Jewish history / Sybil H. Milton.

Notes:

"Essays are based on papers delivered at the International Conference on German Jews, held at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 8-11, 1983"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

CJS copy acc.# 200973

Other Format:

Online version: Jewish response to German culture.

ISBN:

0874513456

9780874513455

9780874515527

0874515521

OCLC:

12189079