Contested rituals
Subtitle: circumcision, kosher butchering, and Jewish political life in Germany, 1843-1933
By: Robin Judd.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780801445453
Subjects: Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1800-1933; Judaism -- Germany -- Customs and practices; Circumcision -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Shehitah
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The circumcision questions in the German-speaking lands, 1843-1857; title: German unification, emancipation, and the "ritual questions"; title: The radicalization of the ritual questions, 1880-1916; title: "The disgrace of our century!" : circumcision, kosher butchering, and modern German politics; title: The Schächtfrage and Jewish political behavior; title: A "renaissance" for the ritual questions? : the ritual debates of the Weimar Republic.