The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany

ISBN-13: 9780195039528 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 368 str.

Marion A. Kaplan

Opis

A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private--familial and religious--lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in the university, paid employment and social service. It analyzes the changing roles of Jewish women as members of an economically mobile, but socially spurned minority. The author emphasizes the crucial role women played in creating the Jewish middle class, as well as their dual role within the Jewish family and community as powerful agents of class formation and acculturation and determined upholders of tradition.

Recenzje

'Kaplan's book makes an important contribution to the history of German Jews, but it should also encourage historians to investigate women's roles in the formation of Catholic and Protestant middle-class identities.' David F. Crew, University of Texas at Austin, German History, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1993