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The Population History of German Jewry 1815-1939 : Based on the Collections and Preliminary Research of Prof. Usiel Oscar Schmelz / Steven Mark Lowenstein ; edited and introduced by David N. Myers and Michael Berenbaum ; with a foreword by Sergio DellaPergola.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowenstein, Steven M., 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Germany--1800-1933.
- Jews.
- Jews--Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (762 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Academic Studies Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- This book is the definitive demographic study of German Jewry from the age of Napoleon to the tie of Hitler. With exquisite details and vast range, Steven Lowenstein details the impact of industrialization and urbanization, medical care and birth control, immigration and emigration, social and sexual norms, on German Jews and on Germany itself.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Sergio DellaPergola The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Preface 1. The Life and Work of Steven M. Lowenstein z”l (1945–2020): “From Washington Heights to Skid Row—a Life of Learning and Doing”
- Preface 2. Steven Lowenstein’s Demographic History
- Acknowledgments
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction
- CHRONOLOGICAL SECTION
- 1 From the Fall of Napoleon to the Unification of Germany (1815–1871)
- 2 German Jewish Population Changes in Imperial Germany (1871–1918)
- 3 From the “Demographic Crisis” of the 1920s to the Flight to Escape after 1933
- TOPICAL SECTION
- 4 Natural Growth and Changes in the German Jewish Family
- 5 Changing Age Structure
- 6 Conversion and Intermarriage
- 7 Migration—Overall Trends and Internal Migration
- 8 Immigration and Emigration
- 9 From Countryside to City: Urbanization and the Survival of Small-Town Jewish Communities
- 10 Jewish Residential Concentration in German Cities
- REGIONAL SECTION
- 11 The Eastern Provinces
- 12 Central and Northwestern Germany—from Sparse Jewish Density to an Urban and Immigrant Center
- 13 Western Germany
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Geographic Names in German and English (Alphabetized in German)
- MAPS
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798887191096
- OCLC:
- 1381097292
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