How Jews Became Germans The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin

Name: How Jews Became Germans The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin
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ISBN: 9780300151640

ISBN-10: 0300151640

ISBN-13: 9780300151640

Edition: 2009

Authors: Deborah Hertz

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When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, an urgent priority was to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast system of conversion and intermarriage records was created in Berlin, the country's premier Jewish city. Deborah Hertz's discovery of these records, theJudenkartei, was the first step on a long research journey that has led to this compelling book. Hertz begins the book in 1645, when the records begin, and traces generations of German Jewish families for the next two centuries. The book analyzes the statistics and explores letters, diaries, and other materials to understand in a…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 3/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Black Notebooks



The Era of Religious Conversion, 1645-1770



The Coming of Age of Rahel Levin, 1771-1810



Emancipation and War, 1811-1813



High Culture Families and Public Satire, 1814-1819



The Entrance Ticket to European Civilization, 1820-1833


Epilogue


Appendix


Notes


Index