A comprehensive historical survey of the Jewish presence in
Central Europe from the seventeenth century to the Holocaust,
"German-Jewish History in Modern Times" is a four-volume collective
project by a team of leading scholars, offering a vivid portrait of
Jewish History. The series is sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute,
established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the
purpose of advancing scholarship on the Jews in German-speaking
lands. "Integration in Dispute 1871--1918" comprises the third
volume and focuses on a period of political, economic, and social
change that fundamentally transformed German Jewry.
Eminent scholars consider a broad range of topics: religious and
cultural life, demographics, political, legal, and socioeconomic
status, relations between Jews and non-Jews, and Jewish
participation in the larger context of European history.
Volume 3 begins with the establishment of civil equality for
Jews in Germany and Austria-Hungary and describes the complexities
of their economic and social integration. The contributors explore
the challenges that confronted Jews as they encountered both
unprecedented opportunities and continued resistance to their full
emancipation and participation in public life. The book discusses
their standing as a minority group within German political and
professional life and as a differentiated portion of the German
middle class; how they coped with successive waves of political
antisemitism; how they continued to adapt traditional religious
practices to modernity; and how urban middle-class life transformed
Jewish families as well as the role of Jewish women in the domestic
and public spheres. The forces of social change, coupled with the
persistence of antisemitism formed the context for the emergence of
Zionism, which posed a powerful challenge to the dominant principle
of integration. This volume also seeks to understand the nature and
timing of the exceptional contributions of German Jews to the
thriving modern culture of such cities as late imperial Vienna and
Berlin as well as to the specific religious culture of Judaism.
Each volume includes a bibliographical essay referring readers
to the most important secondary literature, a chronology covering
the major events discussed, and a series of maps and illustrations.
Encompassing the most up-to-date research on the topic, "German
Jewish History in Modern Times" is an achievement to be valued by
historians, educators, and any reader seeking to understand the
singular heritage of the Jewish people in Central Europe.
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