Stereotyped as delicate and feeble intellectuals, Jewish men in German-speaking lands in fact developed a rich and complex spectrum of male norms, models, and behaviors. Jewish Masculinities explores conceptions and experiences of masculinity among Jews in Germany from the 16th through the late 20th century as well as emigrants to North America, Palestine, and Israel. The volume examines the different worlds of students, businessmen, mohels, ritual slaughterers, rabbis, performers, and others, shedding new light on the challenge for Jewish men of balancing German citizenship and cultural affiliation with Jewish communal solidarity, religious practice, and identity.

Schwerpunkt sind zum einen die Beziehungen zwischen judischem Binnenraum und nicht-judischer Umwelt, zum anderen das Spannungsverhaltnis zwischen Landesherrschaft und den imperialen, durch Kaiser und Reich bestimmten Rahmenbedingungen judischer Existenz. Beitrage von: Anette Baumann, J. Friedrich Battenberg, Stefan Ehrenpreis, Rainer S. Elkar, Andreas Gotzmann, Andre Griemert, Karl Harter, Vera Kallenberg, Verena Kasper-Marienberg, Thomas Lau, Gerhard Rechter ( ), Ursula Reuter, Stephan Wendehorst"