Gender, Judaism, and bourgeois culture in Germany, 1800-1870
By: Benjamin Maria Baader.
Series: The modern Jewish experience; Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Jews -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Judaism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Jews -- Germany -- Identity; Jewish women -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Middle class -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Subculture -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Germany -- Ethnic relations
Description: In this study of gender and religious culture, Benjamin Maria Baader explores the transformation of Judaism during a period of profound change in 19th century Germany.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The periodical Sulamith and the beginnings of bourgeois Judaism; title: At the crossroads : politics of inclusion and emancipation; title: Beyond halakhah : Judaism in the mid-nineteenth century; title: The transformation of the culture of prayer; title: Bourgeois synagogue devotion; title: From male hevrot to modern Jewish voluntary associations; title: Modern rabbis and Jewish women.