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The Berlin Jewish community: enlightenment, family, and crisis, 1770-1830

Lowenstein, Steven M., 1945-

Year: 1994.

Publisher: Oxford University Press.

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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

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Title:

The Berlin Jewish community : enlightenment, family, and crisis, 1770-1830 Steven M. Lowenstein.

Author:

Lowenstein, Steven M., 1945-

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The Berlin Jewish community : enlightenment, family, and crisis, 1770-1830 Steven M. Lowenstein.
Lowenstein, Steven M., 1945-
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Subject Headings:

• Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 18th century
• Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 19th century
• Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Germany -- Berlin
• Jews -- Emancipation -- Germany -- Berlin
• Berlin (Germany) -- Ethnic relations

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