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- author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews, East European--Germany.

Jews, East European.

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 331 p. )

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin ; London, [England] : University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.

Language Note:

English

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 modern.

Contents:

Cover

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

1. GERMAN JEWRY AND THE MAKING OF THE OSTJUDE, 1800-1880

2. THE AMBIVALENT HERITAGE: Liberal Jews and the Ostjuden, 1880-1914

3. CAFTAN AND CRAVAT: "Old" Jews, "New" Jews, and Pre-World War I Anti-Semitism

4. ZIONISM AND THE OSTJUDEN: The Ambiguity of Nationalization

5. IDENTITY AND CULTURE: The Ostjude as Counter-Myth

6. FROM RATIONALISM TO MYTH: Martin Buber and the Reception of Hasidism

7. STRANGE ENCOUNTER: Germany, World War I, and the Ostjuden

8. THE CULT OF THE OSTJUDEN: The War and Beyond

9. JEWISH IDENTITY, OSTJUDEN, AND ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC

10. THE INVERTED IMAGE

ABBREVIATIONS

NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612268847

9781282268845

1282268848

9780299091132

0299091139

OCLC:

1024277653

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06895 hdl