Brothers and strangers : the East European Jew in German and German Jewish consciousness, 1800-1923 / Steven E. Aschheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aschheim, Steven E., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews, East European--Germany.

Jews, East European.

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Germany.

Intellectual life.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [1982]

Summary:

"Brothers and Strangers" traces the history of German Jewish attitudes, policies, and stereotypical images toward Eastern European Jews, demonstrating the ways in which the historic rupture between Eastern and Western Jewry developed as a function of modernism and its imperatives. By the 1880s, most German Jews had inherited and used such negative images to symbolize rejection of their own ghetto past and to emphasize the contrast between modern "enlightened" Jewry and its "half-Asian" counterpart. Moreover, stereotypes of the ghetto and the Eastern Jew figured prominently in the growth and disposition of German anti-Semitism. Not everyone shared these negative preconceptions, however, and over the years a competing post-liberal image emerged of the Ostjude as cultural hero. "Brothers and Strangers" examines the genesis, development, and consequences of these changing forces in their often complex cultural, political, and intellectual contexts.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 307-323.

Local Notes:

Acc.# 201192

ISBN:

0299091104 :

OCLC:

8532546