German Jewry : between hope and despair / edited by Nils Roemer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roemer, Nils.

Series:

Jews in Space and Time

Jews in space and time

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

German Jewry between Hope and Despair,1871-1933, provides important interpretations of this tumultuous and conflict-ridden period and invites readers to partake in the ongoing debate over modern Jewish identities and cultures. Marked at the outset by emancipation and the emergence of modern anti-Semitism, the period witnessed a profound transformation of Jewish social, political, and religious life culminating in the renaissance of Jewish cultures on the eve of the Holocaust. This textbook unites studies that inform our understanding of this historical epoch to this day as well as important historical revisions. Amongst the many contributions are texts by Michael Brenner, Willi Goetschel, Marion Kaplan, George L. Mosse, Peter Pulzer, and Till van Rahden.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgement

Introduction / Roemer, Nils

CHAPTER I. Jews and Nation Building in Germany, 1815-1918 / Pulzer, Peter

CHAPTER II. Situational Ethnicity versus Milieu Identity: Jews and Catholics in Imperial Germany / Rahden, Till van

CHAPTER III. Redefining Judaism in Imperial Germany: Practices, Mentalities, and Communities / Kaplan, Marion

CHAPTER IV. Kafka's Kitsch: Laughter, Tears, and Yiddish Theatre in Prewar Weimar Berlin / Brenner, David A.

CHAPTER V. "The Rathenau Charisma": Modern Design and Art in the Service of the Rathenaus / Shapira, Elana

CHAPTER VI. The Jews and the German War Experience, 1914-1918 / Mosse, George L.

CHAPTER VII. Gemeinschaft and Gemeinde: The Ideological and Institutional Transformation of the Jewish Community / Brenner, Michael

CHAPTER VIII. German Jews beyond Bildung and Liberalism: The Radical Jewish Revival in the Weimar Republic / Aschheim, Steven

CHAPTER IX. Between Deutschtum and Judentum: Ideological Controversies within the Centralverein / Barkai, Avraham

CHAPTER X. Inside/Outside the University: Philosophy as Way and Problem in Cohen, Buber, and Rosenzweig / Goetschel, Willi

CHAPTER XI. Cultural Transfers between Ostjuden and Westjuden: German Jewish Intellectuals and Yiddish Culture, 1897-1930 / Bechtel, Delphine

CHAPTER XII. A Jewish Heimat on Borrowed Time / Roemer, Nils

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61811-049-7

OCLC:

854611989