This book explores the dynamic role of love in German-Jewish lives,
from the birth of the German Empire in the 1870s, to the 1970s, a
generation after the Shoah. During a remarkably turbulent
hundred-year period when German Jews experienced five political
regimes, rapid urbanization, transformations in gender relations,
and war and genocide, the romantic ideals of falling in love and
marrying for love helped German Jews to develop a new sense of
self. Appeals to romantic love were also significant in justifying
relationships between Jews and non-Jews, even when those unions
created conflict within and between communities. By incorporating
novel approaches from the history of emotions and life-cycle
history, Christian Bailey moves beyond existing research into the
sexual and racial politics of modern Germany and approaches a new
frontier in the study of subjectivity and the self. German Jews in
Love draws on a rich array of sources, from newspapers and love
letters to state and other official records. Calling on this
evidence, Bailey shows the ways German Jews' romantic relationships
reveal an aspect of acculturation that has been overlooked: how
deeply cultural scripts worked their way into emotions; those most
intimate and seemingly pre-political aspects of German-Jewish
subjectivity.
General
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture |
| Release date: |
November 2022 |
| First published: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Christian Bailey
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
304 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-3279-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-5036-3279-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781503632790 |
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