The making of the Jewish middle class : women, family, and identity in Imperial Germany / Marion A. Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Marion A., author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Studies in Jewish history.

Oxford scholarship online.

Studies in Jewish history

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jews.

Jewish women--Germany.

Jewish women.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 351 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Women, family, and identity in Imperial Germany

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive study of Jewish women in Imperial Germany (1871-1918) addresses the complex interrelationships of ethnicity, sex, and class. It examines the changing lives and roles of women who were part of an urbanizing, economically mobile, but socially spurned minority group, and also looks at their relationship with the rest of society. The author identifies German-Jewish women's 'double burden' as females - discriminated against in both German and Jewish traditions - and as Jews - objects of the increasing anti-Semitism of their era. She also points out the ambiguous, often contradictory role that Jewish women played: they were powerful agents of acculturation, encouraging their families to adapt outwardly to German customs and norms, and also determined upholders of tradition, maintaining family rituals, kin networks, and Jewish communal organizations.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-319) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

9780197714478

0197714471

9780199772131

0199772134

9780195093964

0195093968

9781280533211

1280533218

OCLC:

1027205799

Publisher Number:

2027/heb01950 hdl