Jews and Other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity,

Jews and Other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925

Jews and Other Germans is the first social and cultural history to probe the parameters of Jewish integration in the half century between the founding of the German Empire in 1871 and the early Weimar Republic. Questioning received wisdom about German-Jewish assimilation and the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany, van Rahdenâ€™s prize-winning book restores some of the complexity and openness of relations between Protestants, Catholics, and Jews before World War I.
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Closely analyzing the political, social, and cultural life in a major German city, van Rahden shows that Jews were a part of a broad urban community that encompassed diversity within unity, at once offering them a large measure of equality while permitting them to remain meaningfully Jewish. Jews and Other Germans also substantially revises the chronology of anti-Semitism in Germany, showing that Jews only began to experience exclusion from Breslauâ€™s social world during World War I.
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Yet van Rahden not only illuminates Breslauâ€™s multicultural fabric; he also tells the story of this remarkable city as one of cultural and religious conflict and coexistence. Recounting the experiences of Jews, Protestants, and Catholics within a single narrative, he offers a critical intervention into scholarship on liberalism and civil society in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe.

Country	USA
Author	Till van Rahden
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780299226947
Edition	1st
ISBN	0299226948
Label	University of Wisconsin Press
Manufacturer	University of Wisconsin Press
MPN	48 tables
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	486
PartNumber	48 tables
PublicationDate	2008-08-04
Publisher	University of Wisconsin Press
Studio	University of Wisconsin Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Jews and Other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925

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