The ferocity of the anti-semitic Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. This book tries to explain why. The history of the Jews in modern Germany is usually told as the tale of outstanding individuals, completely immersed in German society and disproportionately contributing to its culture. This book focuses, however, on the story of "ordinary" German Jews, concerned not merely with being like other Germans, i.e. "assimilated," but with upward social climbing and achievements as well. Although they did not seek to abandon Judaism, they tried to reformulate and reinvent it to fit...
The ferocity of the anti-semitic Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. This book tries to explain why. The history of the Jews in modern Ge...
Der Autorin gelingt mit diesem Werk das, was sie selbst im Vorwort als "das schier Unmogliche" bezeichnet: Sie entwirft im enzyklopadischen Uberblick eine Skizze der gesamten Geschichte des deutschen Judentums von der Aufklarung bis zum Ende des alten Regimes in Deutschland. Im zweiten Teil analysiert sie die Historiografie dieser Zeit mit all ihrer methodologischen und ideologischen Komplexitat. Im dritten Teil finden sich die wichtigsten weiterfuhrenden Titel zu diesem Thema.
Der Autorin gelingt mit diesem Werk das, was sie selbst im Vorwort als "das schier Unmogliche" bezeichnet: Sie entwirft im enzyklopadischen Uberbli...
The ferocity of the anti-semitic Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. This book tries to explain why. The history of the Jews in modern Germany is usually told as the tale of outstanding individuals, completely immersed in German society and disproportionately contributing to its culture. This book focuses, however, on the story of "ordinary" German Jews, concerned not merely with being like other Germans, i.e. "assimilated," but with upward social climbing and achievements as well. Although they did not seek to abandon Judaism, they tried to reformulate and reinvent it to fit...
The ferocity of the anti-semitic Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. This book tries to explain why. The history of the Jews in modern Ge...
Antimodernism, a popular movement growing out of fear and hostility toward an emerging new world, became a central ideological trend in late nineteenth-century Europe. Shulamit Volkov explains its development in Germany by providing a biography of one group--the urban master artisans--whose political attitudes came to be dominated by antimodernist feelings.
As small, independently employed practitioners of traditional crafts, the master artisans possessed a special social identity. The author focuses on their character as a group, their public behavior, and the formation of their...
Antimodernism, a popular movement growing out of fear and hostility toward an emerging new world, became a central ideological trend in late ninete...
Antimodernism, a popular movement growing out of fear and hostility toward an emerging new world, became a central ideological trend in late nineteenth-century Europe. Shulamit Volkov explains its development in Germany by providing a biography of one group--the urban master artisans--whose political attitudes came to be dominated by antimodernist feelings.
As small, independently employed practitioners of traditional crafts, the master artisans possessed a special social identity. The author focuses on their character as a group, their public behavior, and the formation of their...
Antimodernism, a popular movement growing out of fear and hostility toward an emerging new world, became a central ideological trend in late ninete...
