Germans, Jews, and Antisemites Trials in Emancipation

Name: Germans, Jews, and Antisemites Trials in Emancipation
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ISBN: 9780521609593

ISBN-10: 0521609593

ISBN-13: 9780521609593

Edition: 2005

Authors: Shulamit Volkov

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Explaining why the ferocity of the Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise, this book stresses the dialectical nature of assimilation, the lead of the Jews in the processes of modernization, and, finally, their continuous efforts to 'invent' a modern Judaism that would fit their new social and cultural position.

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/24/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Preface


Prologue: My Father Leaves His German Homeland



Interpreting the Danger Signs



Views from East and West



The Eastern Perspective



Loyalty and Complacency



Excursus on Self-Hatred and Self-Criticism



Past Shadows, Present Needs



The Kristallnacht and Other Pogroms



A View from Eretz Israel



Antisemitism as a Cultural Code



Antisemitism Old and New



Origins and "Complete Explanations"



The Vocabulary of Antisemitism



Functions and Meaning



National Consciousness: The Jew as the Other



The Political Function of Antisemitism in the Kaiserreich



The Cultural Meaning of Antisemitism



Norms and Codes: Two Case Studies



The Case of Social Democracy



Antisemitism and Anti-Feminism



Comparing Germany with the French Republic



The German-Jewish Project of Modernity



Excursus on Minorities in the Nation-State



Climbing Up the Social Ladder



Becoming Bourgeois



Language and Proper Behavior



Advantages and Disadvantages



Paradoxes of Becoming Alike



Who Came to Resemble Whom?



Demography and Intimate Culture



Jewish Success in Science



The Social Origins of Success



Succeeding within the System



The Ambivalence of Bildung



Forces of Dissimilation



The Limits of Assimilation



Reassessing the Jews from the East



Inventing Tradition


Epilogue: Closing the Circle


Index