Format:
1 online resource (250 pages)
ISBN:
9780804771405
Series Statement:
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.
Content:
Germans into Jews turns to an often overlooked and misunderstood period of German and Jewish history-the years between the world wars. It has been assumed that the Jewish community in Germany was in decline during the Weimar Republic. But, Sharon Gillerman demonstrates that Weimar Jews sought to rejuvenate and reconfigure their community as a means both of strengthening the German nation and of creating a more expansive and autonomous Jewish entity within the German state. These ambitious projects to increase fertility, expand welfare, and strengthen the family transcended the ideological and religious divisions that have traditionally characterized Jewish communal life. Integrating Jewish history, German history, gender history, and social history, this book highlights the experimental and contingent nature of efforts by Weimar Jews to reassert a new Jewish particularism while simultaneously reinforcing their commitment to Germanness.
Content:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "As the Family Goes, So Goes the Nation" -- 2. Constructing a Jewish Body Politic: Declining Fertility and the Development of a Jewish Population Policy -- 3. "A Little State Within a Larger One": The Expansion of Jewish Welfare During the Weimar Republic -- 4. Rescuing "Endangered Youth": Youth Welfare and the Project of Bourgeois Social Reform -- 5. Trauma and Transference: War Orphans Shape a New Jewish Nation -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804757119
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804757119
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=483432
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