The Jews of Germany
Subtitle: a historical portrait
By: Ruth Gay ; with an introduction by Peter Gay.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Jews -- Germany -- History; Germany -- Ethnic relations
Description: In its combination of text, pictures, and short documents, this is by far the best and most accessible account yet of German Jewry. Ruth Gay makes a Jewish community -one that has widely influenced our intellictual life-come alive. The destruction of this community and the exile of so many of its members are given new meaning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-285) and index.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: viii; label: Chapter 1
title: Origins
pagenum: 3; title: Beginnings on the Rhine; title: The Crusades; title: A People Apart; title: Anti-Semitism; label: Chapter 2
title: The Institutions of Jewish Life
pagenum: 31; title: Communal Organization; title: Religion and Ritual; label: Chapter 3
title: From the Middle Ages to the Court Jews
pagenum: 62; title: The Ghetto of Frankfurt am Main; title: Women; title: Glückel of Hameln; title: Revivals of Mysticiam; title: The Court Jew; title: Berlin: A Community of Court Jews; label: Chapter 4
title: The Return to History
pagenum: 98; title: The Age of Moses Mendelssohn; title: Pressures for Change; title: Emergence into Social Life: The Salons; label: Chapter 5
title: The Return to History
pagenum: 118; title: Decades of Ferment; title: Napoleon and the Aftermath; title: Solutions; title: New Ways and New Religion; label: Chapter 6
title: The Return to History
pagenum: 161; title: Jewish Emancipation; title: The Magnates; title: The Middle Class; title: Department Stores; title: In the Community; title: Modern Anti-Semitism; title: Rural Jews; title: East European Jews in Germany; label: Chapter 7
title: The End
pagenum: 240; title: The Weimar Republic; title: The Nazi Period; title: Emigration; title: Palestine; title: The End; label: Further Reading
title: 284; label: Acknowledgments
title: 286; label: Credits
title: 288; label: Index
title: 291