Germans into Jews : remaking the Jewish social body in the Weimar Republic / Sharon Gillerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillerman, Sharon, 1960-

Series:

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--History--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--Germany--Social conditions--20th century.

Jews--Germany--Charities--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Germans into Jews turns to an often overlooked and misunderstood period of German and Jewish history—the years between the world wars. It has been assumed that the Jewish community in Germany was in decline during the Weimar Republic. But, Sharon Gillerman demonstrates that Weimar Jews sought to rejuvenate and reconfigure their community as a means both of strengthening the German nation and of creating a more expansive and autonomous Jewish entity within the German state. These ambitious projects to increase fertility, expand welfare, and strengthen the family transcended the ideological and religious divisions that have traditionally characterized Jewish communal life. Integrating Jewish history, German history, gender history, and social history, this book highlights the experimental and contingent nature of efforts by Weimar Jews to reassert a new Jewish particularism while simultaneously reinforcing their commitment to Germanness.

Contents:

"As the family goes, so goes the nation"

Constructing a Jewish body politic : declining fertility and the development of a Jewish population policy

"A little state within a larger one" : the expansion of Jewish social work during the Weimar Republic

Rescuing "endangered youths" : youth welfare and the project of bourgeois social reform

"Trauma and transference" : war orphans shape a new Jewish nation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804771405

0804771405

OCLC:

530456791