The German Jew
Subtitle: a synthesis of Judaism and Western civilization, 1730-1930
By: by H.I. Bach.
Series: The Littman library of Jewish civilization; Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
Publisher: Published for the Littman Library by Oxford University Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life.; Judaism -- Germany.; Germany -- Civilization -- Jewish influences.; Germany -- Ethnic relations.
Description: The German Jew traces the prewar history of German Jewry, charting the progress of the Jews from Court Jew to emancipation. It stresses the role Moses Mendelssohn and his circle played in the development of this community and examines the many contributions Jews made to 19th-century German intellectual, scientific, and cultural life.
Notes: Includes index.