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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.
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THE BERLIN JEWISH COMMUNITY
STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY Jehuda Reinharz, General Editor THE JEWS OF PARIS AND THE FINAL SOLUTION Communal Response and Internal Conflicts, 1940-1944 Jacques Adler JEWS IN CHRISTIAN AMERICA The Pursuit of Religious Equality Naomi W. Cohen ATLAS OF MODERN JEWISH HISTORY Evyatar Friesel A SIGN AND A WITNESS 2,000 Years of Hebrew Books and Illuminated Manuscripts Paperback edition (co-published with The New York Public Library) Edited by Leonard Singer Gold A CLASH OF HEROES Brandeis, Weizmann, and American Zionism Ben Halpern THE MAKING OF THE JEWISH MIDDLE CLASS Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany Marion A. Kaplan
THE VATICAN AND ZIONISM Conflict in the Holy Land, 1895-1925 Sergio Minerbi ESCAPING THE HOLOCAUST Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939-1944 Dalia Ofer CHAIM WEIZMANN The Making of a Zionist Leader Jehuda Reinharz CHAIM WEIZMANN The Making of a Statesman Jehuda Reinharz COURAGE UNDER SIEGE Starvation, Disease, and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto Charles G. Roland LAND AND POWER The Zionist Resort to Force Anita Shapira
THE TRANSFORMATION OF GERMAN JEWRY: 1780-1840 THE MAKING OF CZECH JEWRY National Conflict and Jewish Society in Bohemia, David ]Sorkin 1870-1918 Hillel J. Kieval FOR WHOM DO I TOIL? Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian THE ROAD TO MODERN JEWISH POLITICS Jewry Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction Michael F. Stanislawski in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia Eli Lederhendler UNWELCOME STRANGERS THE BERLIN JEWISH COMMUNITY Enlightenment, Family, and Crisis, 1770—1830 Steven M. Lowenstein
East European Jews in Imperial Germany Jack Wertheimer
ON MODERN JEWISH POLITICS Ezra Mendelsohn
THE HOLOCAUST The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 Leni Yahil
RESPONSE TO MODERNITY A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism Michael A. Meyer
WILHELM MARR The Patriarch of Antisemitism Moshe Zimmermann
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THE BERLIN JEWISH COMMUNITY Enlightenment, Family, and Crisis, 1770-1830 STEVEN M. LOWENSTEIN
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Copyright © 1994 by Steven M. Lowenstein Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lowenstein, Steven M., 1945The Berlin Jewish community : enlightenment, family, and crisis, 1770-1830 / Steven M. Lowenste