Germans into Jews: remaking the Jewish social body in the Weimar Republic
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gillerman, Sharon 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press ©2009
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:"As the family goes, so goes the nation" -- Constructing a Jewish body politic : declining fertility and the development of a Jewish population policy -- "A little state within a larger one" : the expansion of Jewish welfare during the Weimar Republic -- Rescuing "endangered youth" : youth welfare and the project of bourgeois social reform -- "Trauma and transference" : war orphans shape a new Jewish nation
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-226) and index
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
Physical Description:x, 238 pages
ISBN:9780804771405
0804771405
9780804757119
0804757119

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