The Berlin Jewish community : enlightenment, family, and crisis, 1770-1830 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1994. |
| Series: | Studies in Jewish history.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Berlin Before Modernity
- 1.. The Crisis of Berlin Jewry: Introduction to the Problem
- 2.. A Traditional Jewish Community: Berlin Jewry Before the Changes
- Part II. The Stage of "Peaceful Modernization"
- 3.. The Seven Years War (1756-1763) and the Emergence of a New Economic Elite
- 4.. The Intellectuals of the Berlin Haskala
- 5.. The Lifestyle of Modernizing Berlin Jews
- 6.. Those Outside the Modernizing Groups: Poor Jews and Orthodox Jews in Berlin
- Part III. The Crisis of Berlin Jewry
- 7.. The Struggle for Emancipation and Its Radicalizing Impact
- 8.. Intellectual Radicalization and Economic Crisis
- 9.. The Salons
- 10.. The Crisis: Illegitimacy and Family Breakdown
- 11.. The Crisis--Conversion: Its Scope and Characteristics
- 12.. Religious Reform: An Attempt to Deal with the Crisis
- Part IV. The Social Analysis of the Crisis and Its Connection to the Enlightenment
- 13.. Family, Ideology, and Crisis: The Personal Connections Between the Enlightened and the Converts
- 14.. Was the Experience of Women Different from Men's Experience?
- 15.. The Aftermath of the Crisis: Berlin Jewry After 1823
- Part V. Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index