The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family, and Crisis, 1770-1830
The Berlin Jewish community was both the pioneer in intellectual modernization and the first to experience a crisis of modernity. This original and imaginative book connects intellectual and political transformation with the social structures and daily activities of the Jewish community. Steven M. L...
| Zusammenfassung: | The Berlin Jewish community was both the pioneer in intellectual modernization and the first to experience a crisis of modernity. This original and imaginative book connects intellectual and political transformation with the social structures and daily activities of the Jewish community. Steven M. Lowenstein has used extraordinarily rich documentation about the life of Berlin Jewry in the period and assembled a collective biography of the entire community of Berlin Jews. He has examined tax lists, subscription lists, genealogical records, and address lists as well as kosher meat accounts to give us a vivid picture of daily life. On another level in detailing the complexity of Jewish life in Berlin during this period, this book illuminates the connections between the "peaceful stage" of enlightenment and the crisis that followed. Intro -- Contents -- Part I: Berlin Before Modernity -- 1. The Crisis of Berlin Jewry: Introduction to the Problem -- 2. A Traditional Jewish Community: Berlin Jewry Before the Changes -- Part II: The Stage of "Peaceful Modernization -- 3. The Seven Years War (1756-1763) and the Emergence of a New Economic Elite -- 4. The Intellectuals of the Berlin Haskala -- 5. The Lifestyle of Modernizing Berlin Jews -- 6. Those Outside the Modernizing Groups: Poor Jews and Orthodox Jews in Berlin -- Part III: The Crisis of Berlin Jewry -- 7. The Struggle for Emancipation and Its Radicalizing Impact -- 8. Intellectual Radicalization and Economic Crisis -- 9. The Salons -- 10. The Crisis: Illegitimacy and Family Breakdown -- 11. The Crisis-Conversion: Its Scope and Characteristics -- 12. Religious Reform: An Attempt to Deal with the Crisis -- Part IV: The Social Analysis of the Crisis and Its Connection to the Enlightenment -- 13. Family, Ideology, and Crisis: The Personal Connections Between the Enlightened and the Converts -- 14. Was the Experience of Women Different from Men's Experience? -- 15. The Aftermath of the Crisis: Berlin Jewry After 1823 -- Part V: Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
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| ISBN: | 0195359429 |