In and out of the ghetto
Subtitle: Jewish-gentile relations in late medieval and early modern Germany
By: edited by R. Po-chia Hsia and Hartmut Lehmann.
Contributors: Hsia, R. Po-chia, 1953-; Lehmann, Hartmut, 1936-
Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
Publisher: German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1096-1800 -- Congresses.; Germany -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses.
Description: The essays examine the role of economics, politics, social organization, language, and religion in the relations between Jews and non-Jews in central Europe from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. The authors grapple with such relevant issues as cultural identity, representation, toleration, and minority-majority relations.

Individually, the essays probe the central questions of Jewish social, economic, and cultural development within the territorial states, secular and clerical, and in both rural and urban environments. Collectively, they focus more attention on the period before the emancipation of the nineteenth century and the destruction of German Jewry in the middle of the twentieth, emphasizing both continuities and discontinuities in the history of Jews in Germany.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at a conference held in Los Angeles on May 9-11, 1991.