{"product_id":"9780231074780","title":"German-Jewish History in Modern Times","description":"AWARDED: \u003cbi\u003e Volume II: Emancipation and Acculturation, 1780-1871 \u003c\/bi\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 1997 National Jewish Book Award for Jewish History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive historical survey of the Jewish presence in Central Europe from the seventeenth century to the Holocaust, \u003ci\u003e German-Jewish History in Modern Times \u003c\/i\u003e is a four-volume collective project by a team of leading scholars, offering a vivid portrait of Jewish History. The series is sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the purpose of advancing scholarship on the Jews in German-speaking lands. \u003ci\u003e Integration in Dispute 1871-1918 \u003c\/i\u003e comprises the third volume and focuses on a period of political, economic, and social change that fundamentally transformed German Jewry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEminent scholars consider a broad range of topics: religious and cultural life, demographics, political, legal, and socioeconomic status, relations between Jews and non-Jews, and Jewish participation in the larger context of European history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 3 begins with the establishment of civil equality for Jews in Germany and Austria-Hungary and describes the complexities of their economic and social integration. The contributors explore the challenges that confronted Jews as they encountered both unprecedented opportunities and continued resistance to their full emancipation and participation in public life. The book discusses their standing as a minority group within German political and professional life and as a differentiated portion of the German middle class; how they coped with successive waves of political antisemitism; how they continued to adapt traditional religious practices to modernity; and how urban middle-class life transformed Jewish families as well as the role of Jewish women in the domestic and public spheres. The forces of social change, coupled with the persistence of antisemitism formed the context for the emergence of Zionism, which posed a powerful challenge to the dominant principle of integration. This volume also seeks to understand the nature and timing of the exceptional contributions of German Jews to the thriving modern culture of such cities as late imperial Vienna and Berlin as well as to the specific religious culture of Judaism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach volume includes a bibliographical essay referring readers to the most important secondary literature, a chronology covering the major events discussed, and a series of maps and illustrations. Encompassing the most up-to-date research on the topic, \u003ci\u003e German Jewish History in Modern Times \u003c\/i\u003e is an achievement to be valued by historians, educators, and any reader seeking to understand the singular heritage of the Jewish people in Central Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e -\"Michael Meyer, arguably the dean of German-Jewish historians, has\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eassembled a superb team of scholars for an ambitious work of synthesis: a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprojected four-volume history of German Jewry in modern times. The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eopening volume ranges broadly over the transitional period to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emodernity--from the close of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eparticular interest, among a cross-section of fascinating topics covered,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare the changing position and status of Jewish women in Germany and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ediscovery of the new understanding and meaning of childhood and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echildren's education within the German-Jewish Enlightenment. Readers will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeagerly look forward to future volumes in this series.\" -\u003ci\u003e Jewish Book World \u003c\/i\u003e -\"The tone is sober, the judgments balanced, the coverage comprehensive,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the learning impressive.\"\u003ci\u003e -\u003c\/i\u003eJewish Chronicle \u003ci\u003e -\"The extraordinary significance of this work cannot be questioned . . . . One can speak with complete justification of a major historigraphical event.\"\u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e Die Zeit \u003c\/i\u003e -\"[The work] has an engaging note of commitment. The result is a narrative - sensitively translated - that is judicious but always absorbing. . . . The enterprise will be judged a brilliant success.\"\u003ci\u003e -\u003c\/i\u003e Times Literary Supplement  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Perseus (for Columbia University Press)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009380532464,"sku":"9780231074780","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780231074780_p0.jpg?v=1763677816","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780231074780","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}