Jewish emancipation in a German city
Subtitle: Cologne, 1798-1871
By: Shulamit S. Magnus.
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Jews -- Germany -- Cologne -- History -- 19th century; Jews -- Emancipation -- Germany -- Cologne; Cologne (Germany) -- Ethnic relations
Description: This work seeks to understand how, in nineteenth-century Germany, Jews and non-Jews shaped and experienced Jewish emancipation, a process whereby Jews were freed from ancient discriminatory laws and, over the course of decades, became citizens.

Unlike most other works on German Jewish emancipation, this book examines how so fundamental and dramatic a transformation in the relation of Jews and non-Jews was experienced by the people who lived it, how economic, social, political, and ideological forces interacted to bring about change, and how accommodation actually occurred.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-330) and index.