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  • HfJS Heidelberg  (2)
  • Dubnow Institute  (2)
  • Vienna  (2)
  • English  (2)
  • 1990-1994  (2)
  • Barḳai, Avraham  (1)
  • Lowenstein, Steven M.  (1)
  • Joden  (2)
  • Philosophie
  • 1
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    Branching out : German Jewish immigration to the United States ; 1820 - 1914 (1994)
    New York [u.a.] : Holmes & Meier
    Details
    ISBN: 0841911525
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 269 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Series Statement: Ellis island series
    DDC: 973/.04924031
    RVK:
    BD 9500
    RVK:
    MS 3400
    RVK:
    NY 4900
    Keywords: Geschichte 1820-1914 ; Immigratie ; Joden ; Einwanderer ; Geschichte ; Juden ; Migration ; Immigrants History ; Jews Migrations ; Jews, German History ; Einwanderung ; Auswanderung ; Juden ; Deutschland ; USA ; Germany Emigration and immigration ; United States Emigration and immigration ; United States Ethnic relations ; USA ; Deutschland ; Deutsch-Juden ; Einwanderung ; USA ; Deutsch-Juden ; Geschichte 1820-1914 ; Deutschland ; Juden ; USA ; Einwanderung ; Geschichte 1820-1914 ; Deutschland ; Juden ; Auswanderung ; USA ; Geschichte 1820-1914 ; USA ; Einwanderung ; Juden ; Deutschland ; Geschichte 1820-1914
    Abstract: The many thousands of Jews from German-speaking lands who came to the United States throughout the nineteenth century played a major part in laying the foundations of the Jewish community in America. The author considers these immigrants a branch of German Jewry, compelled to seek overseas the political and civil rights denied them at home. In this volume of the Ellis Island Series, the fascinating story of this mass immigration of mostly poor, enterprising, young people is told in vivid detail. Drawing on rare letters, diaries, memoirs, period newspapers, journals, and other firsthand accounts, Barkai traces the process of family-oriented chain migration, resettlement, and acculturation, exploring as well the group's relations with the Jewish community in Germany and with German and Jewish immigrants in the New World. Often starting out as peddlers and storekeepers, the immigrants moved back and forth from East Coast towns and cities to settlements in the South, Midwest, and Far West, helping to expand the American frontier and to develop cities such as Cincinnati St. Louis, Milwaukee, and San Francisco. The narrative chronicles their experiences in the goldfields of California, on Indian reservations, and during the Civil War, in which German-Jewish soldiers in the Union and Confederate armies struggled against bigotry to assert their civil rights. These engaging personal narratives are woven into an account of the formative role played by German-Jewish immigrants in establishing the institutional framework of the American-Jewish community. Their influential network of mutual aid and philanthropic organizations would be challenged, at the turn of the century, by the great mass migration of Jews from Eastern Europe. The author's presentation of the dramatic encounter between these two groups sheds new light not only on this critical period in American-Jewish history but also on the dynamics of cultural change in a pluralist society.
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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  • 2
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    The Berlin Jewish community : enlightenment, family, and crisis, 1770 - 1830 (1994)
    New York, NY u.a. : Oxford Univ. Press
    Details
    ISBN: 0195083261
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 300 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Series Statement: Studies in Jewish history
    DDC: 943.1/55004924 20
    RVK:
    BD 9255
    RVK:
    BD 9259
    RVK:
    NR 6910
    RVK:
    NY 4650
    Keywords: Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1770-1830 ; Joden ; Geschichte ; Juden ; Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 18th century ; Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 19th century ; Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Germany -- Berlin ; Jews -- Emancipation -- Germany -- Berlin ; Juden ; Assimilation ; Emanzipation ; Deutschland ; Berlin (Germany) -- Ethnic relations ; Berlin ; Berlin ; Juden ; Geschichte 1770-1830 ; Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin ; Assimilation ; Emanzipation ; Geschichte 1770-1830 ; Juden ; Berlin ; Geschichte 1770-1830
    Abstract: Berlin Jewry was the first major Jewish community to undergo the process of modernization which has since swept most of world Jewry. The process of adaptation to the cultural, linguistic and political life of the majority culture first proposed by intellectuals of the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskala) was accompanied by a thoroughgoing crisis of Jewish identity. Berlin Jewry was soon faced by patterns of illegitimacy, marital breakdown and conversion to Christianity on a scale never witnessed before. Scholars have long debated the severity of the crisis of Berlin Jewry as well as its connection to the philosophy and practice of the Jewish Enlightenment. The Berlin Jewish Community endeavors to settle much of the debate through a collective biography of all 3,500 Jews in Berlin at the time. The extraordinarily rich documentation about the life of Berlin Jewry in the period makes it possible to trace the personal and family connections between those involved in modernizing activities with those involved in the later crisis. The results of this study show that one in four families had members that converted and that pro-Enlightenment families were more likely to have converted relatives than were traditionalists. This correlation is not simply a matter of Enlightenment "responsibility" for the crisis, but rather was produced by a very complex and often contradictory process of moving from traditional to modern Jewish life. In this original and imaginative book, Steven M. Lowenstein presents definitive data on the dimensions and social dynamics of the crisis of Berlin Jewry at the end of the eighteenth century. It will be of interest to scholars and students of modern Jewish history, German history, social history, and modern Jewish religious and intellectual developments.
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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