The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany - Couverture rigide

Kaplan, Marion A.

 
9780195039528: The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195039521 ISBN 13 : 9780195039528
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This comprehensive study of Jewish women in Imperial Germany (1871-1918) addresses the complex interrelationships of ethnicity, sex, and class. It examines the changing lives and roles of women who were part of an urbanizing, economically mobile, but socially spurned minority group, and also looks at their relationship with the rest of society.

The author identifies German-Jewish women's `double burden' as females - discriminated against in both German and Jewish traditions - and as Jews - objects of the increasing anti-Semitism of their era. She also points out the ambiguous, often contradictory role that Jewish women played: they were powerful agents of acculturation, encouraging their families to adapt outwardly to German customs and norms, and also determined upholders of tradition, maintaining family rituals, kin networks, and Jewish communal organizations.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This comprehensive study of Jewish women in Imperial Germany (1871-1918) addresses the complex interrelationships of ethnicity, sex, and class. It examines the changing lives and roles of women who were part of an urbanizing, economically mobile, but socially spurned minority group, and also looks at their relationship with the rest of society. The author identifies German-Jewish women's `double burden' as females - discriminated against in both German and Jewish traditions - and as Jews - objects of the increasing anti-Semitism of their era. She also points out the ambiguous, often contradictory role that Jewish women played: they were powerful agents of acculturation, encouraging their families to adapt outwardly to German customs and norms, and also determined upholders of tradition, maintaining family rituals, kin networks, and Jewish communal organizations.

Revue de presse

'Kaplan's book makes an important contribution to the history of German Jews, but it should also encourage historians to investigate women's roles in the formation of Catholic and Protestant middle-class identities.' David F. Crew, University of Texas at Austin, German History, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1993

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195039521
ISBN 13 
9780195039528
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780195093964: The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0195093968 ISBN 13 :  9780195093964
Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 1991
Couverture souple