German Jewry: Its History and Sociology

ISBN-13: 9781138510357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 250 str.

Joseph B. Maier

Opis

This history of post-Emancipation German Jewry and of the Holocaust aftermath has received considerable scholarly attention. The study of Jewish life in Germany in the 1930s and the migration impelled by the Nazi period has, on the other hand, been comparatively neglected. The work of Werner J. Cahnman (1902-1980) goes a long way toward filling thi

Spis treści

Part I. A New Approach to German-Jewish History 1. The Three Regions of German-Jewish History 3 2. Pariahs, Strangers, and Court Jews 15 3. The Role and Significance of the Jewish Artisan Class 29 4. Village and Small-Town Jews in Germany 43 5. The Socioeconomic Causes of Antisemitism 69 Part II. Community and Family History 6. The Decline of the Munich Jewish Community, 1933-38 83 7. The Jews of Munich: 1918-43 Annotated and Translated from the German by Judith Marcus 97 8. In the Dachau Concentration Camp: An Autobiographical Essay 151 Part III. Profiles in Jewish Courage and Vision 9. Scholar and Visionary: The Correspondence between Theodor Herzl and Ludwig Gumplowicz 161 10. The Life of Clementine Kraemer 175 11. Martin Buber: A Reminiscence 201 Part IV. Reflections on the German-Jewish Symbiosis, 12. Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling and the New Thinking of Judaism.

O autorze

Joseph B. Maier (Author)