German-Jewish History in Modern Times: Emancipation and acculturation, 1780-1871A comprehensive historical survey of the Jewish presence in Central Europe from the seventeenth century to the Holocaust, German-Jewish History in Modern Times is a four-volume collective project by a team of leading scholars, offering a vivid portrait of Jewish History. The series is sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the purpose of advancing scholarship on the Jews in German-speaking lands. Integration in Dispute 1871-1918 comprises the third volume and focuses on a period of political, economic, and social change that fundamentally transformed German Jewry. Eminent scholars consider a broad range of topics: religious and cultural life, demographics, political, legal, and socioeconomic status, relations between Jews and non-Jews, and Jewish participation in the larger context of European history. Volume 3 begins with the establishment of civil equality for Jews in Germany and Austria-Hungary and describes the complexities of their economic and social integration. The contributors explore the challenges that confronted Jews as they encountered both unprecedented opportunities and continued resistance to their full emancipation and participation in public life. The book discusses their standing as a minority group within German political and professional life and as a differentiated portion of the German middle class; how they coped with successive waves of political antisemitism; how they continued to adapt traditional religious practices to modernity; and how urban middle-class life transformed Jewish families as well as the role of Jewish women in the domestic and public spheres. The forces of social change, coupled with the persistence of antisemitism formed the context for the emergence of Zionism, which posed a powerful challenge to the dominant principle of integration. This volume also seeks to understand the nature and timing of the exceptional contributions of German Jews to the thriving modern culture of such cities as late imperial Vienna and Berlin as well as to the specific religious culture of Judaism. Each volume includes a bibliographical essay referring readers to the most important secondary literature, a chronology covering the major events discussed, and a series of maps and illustrations. Encompassing the most up-to-date research on the topic, German Jewish History in Modern Times is an achievement to be valued by historians, educators, and any reader seeking to understand the singular heritage of the Jewish people in Central Europe. |
Contents
Introduction Michael Brenner | 1 |
Population Shifts and Occupational | 50 |
Jewish Communities in Transition | 90 |
Jewish SelfUnderstanding | 128 |
Judaism and Christianity | 168 |
Becoming German Remaining Jewish | 199 |
From Subject to Citizen | 251 |
Between Revolution | 279 |
Jewish Identity in the Decades | 316 |
Conclusion Michael A Meyer | 349 |
Notes | 355 |
365 | |
Chronology | 387 |
393 | |
Common terms and phrases
Abraham Geiger acculturation activities anti-Jewish areas Auerbach Baden Bavaria became Berlin Börne Breslau cities citizens civil equality contemporary conversion culture decades earlier economic Edict Enlightenment especially faith fatherland Frankel Frankfurt am Main French Gabriel Riesser German Jews Geschichte der Juden ghetto Hamburg Hebrew Heine Heinrich Heinrich Heine Hirsch Holdheim institutions integration Israel Jacob Toury Jewish community Jewish education Jewish emancipation Jewish history Jewish population Jewish religious Jewish schools Jewry Jews and Christians Judaism Judentums Jüdische later LBIYB Leopold Zunz liberal literature lived Ludwig Ludwig Börne Ludwig Philippson Mendelssohn modern moral Moritz Moses Moses Mendelssohn nineteenth century non-Jewish non-Jews number of Jewish number of Jews Oppenheim Orthodox percent period Philippson political Posen Prague province province of Posen Prussia rabbis radical regarded religion religious reform remained represented revolution Sabbath secular sermons significant Silesia social society synagogue Talmud tion towns trade traditional Vienna Wissenschaft writers wrote Württemberg Zunz