Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945

Description

From the seventeenth century until the Holocaust, Germany's Jews lurched between progress and setback, between fortune and terrible misfortune. German society shunned Jews in the eighteenth century and opened unevenly to them in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, only to turnmurderous in the Nazi era. By examining the everyday lives of ordinary Jews, this book portrays the drama of German-Jewish history -- the gradual ascent of Jews from impoverished outcasts to comfortable bourgeois citizens and then their dramatic descent into genocidal torment during the Nazi years.Building on social, economic, religious, and political history, it focuses on the qualitative aspects of ordinary life -- emotions, subjective impressions, and quotidian perceptions. How did ordinary Jews and their families make sense of their world? How did they construe changes brought about byindustrialization? ...

First Sentence

The early modern period in European Jewish history encompassed a dynamic meeting of the forces of modernity with still strong elements of traditional Jewish life.

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Other Editions

• Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945Oxford University Press, USA2005-02-03
• Jewish daily life in Germany, 1618-1945Oxford University Press2004-01-01
• Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945eBookOxford University Press2007-01-01