The Berlin Jewish Community : Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770-1830 (Studies in Jewish History)
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The Berlin Jewish community was both the pioneer in intellectual modernization and the first to experience a crisis of modernity. This original and imaginative book connects intellectual and political transformation with the social structures and daily activities of the Jewish community.
Steven M. Lowenstein has used extraordinarily rich documentation about the life of Berlin Jewry in the period and assembled a collective biography of the entire community of Berlin Jews. He has examined tax lists, subscription lists, genealogical records, and address lists as well as kosher meat
accounts to give us a vivid picture of daily life. On another level in detailing the complexity of Jewish life in Berlin during this period, this book illuminates the connections between the "peaceful stage" of enlightenment and the crisis that followed.
The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770-1830 (Studies in Jewish History),Steven M. Lowenstein,Oxford University Press, USA,0195083261,18th century,19th century,Berlin,Cultural assimilation,Europe - Germany,Germany,History,History - General History,History Of Jews,History: World,Jewish - General,Jews,Literary Criticism,Shakespeare,European history: c 1750 to c 1900,History / Germany,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,History, World | European | Germany,Jewish studies,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
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