Author: GAY, RUTH. GAY, PETER (1923-2015)
Title: The Jews of Germany : a historical portrait / Ruth Gay ; with an introduction by Peter Gay
Description: New Haven : Yale University Press 1992. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiii. 297 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. Notes; Leo Baeck Institute (London). Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-285) and index. Contents; Introduction / Peter Gay -- Ch. 1. Origins. Beginnings on the Rhine. The Crusades. A people apart. Anti-semitism -- Ch. 2. The institutions of Jewish life. Communal organization. Religion and ritual -- Ch. 3. From the Middle Ages to the court Jews. The ghetto of Frankfurt am Main. Women. Gluckel of Hameln. Revivals of mysticism. The court Jew. Berlin: a community of court Jews -- Ch. 4. The return to history. The age of Moses Mendelssohn. Pressures for change. Emergence into social life: the salons -- Ch. 5. The struggle for emancipation. Decades of ferment. Napoleon and the aftermath. Solutions. New ways and new religions -- Ch. 6. In the fifty-year empire. Jewish emancipation. 1871. The magnates. The middle classes. Department stores. In the community. Modern anti-semitism. Rural Jews. East European Jews in Germany -- Ch. 7. The end. The Weimar Republic. The Nazi period. Emigration. Palestine. The end. Summary; In its combination of text. pictures. and short documents. this is by far the best and most accessible account yet of German Jewry. Ruth Gay makes a Jewish community -one that has widely influenced our intellictual life-come alive. The destruction of this community and the exile of so many of its members are given new meaning. Subjects; Jews — Germany — History. Jews — Germany — History. Judaism — Germany — History. Jews — Germany — Social conditions. Germany [pre 1871 & over several eras]. Germany — Ethnic relations — History. Germany — Race discrimination — History. Germany. pre 1945. groups determined by race or nationality. racial groups. ethnic groups. ethnicity. ethnic minorities. jews in germany. jewish people in germany. jewish community. Jews — History. Germany. History (Europe). Illustrated books. Jewish communities. Jewish history. Social & cultural history ; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland) ; Jewish studies. History / Europe / Germany. History / Jewish. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. ISBN: 0300051557. Weight in Kg appr.:

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