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• catalog 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.".
• catalog contributor b4795562.
• catalog coverage "Berlin (Germany) Ethnic relations.".
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description "14. Was the Experience of Women Different from Men's Experience? 15. The Aftermath of the Crisis: Berlin Jewry After 1823 -- pt. V. Conclusion.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "pt. I. Berlin Before Modernity. 1. The Crisis of Berlin Jewry: Introduction to the Problem. 2. A Traditional Jewish Community: Berlin Jewry Before the Changes -- pt. II. The Stage of "Peaceful Modernization" 3. The Seven Years War (1756-1763) and the Emergence of a New Economic Elite. 4. The Intellectuals of the Berlin Haskala. 5. The Lifestyle of Modernizing Berlin Jews. 6. Those Outside the Modernizing Groups: Poor Jews and Orthodox Jews in Berlin -- pt. III. The Crisis of Berlin Jewry. 7. The Struggle for Emancipation and Its Radicalizing Impact. 8. Intellectual Radicalization and Economic Crisis. 9. The Salons. 10. The Crisis: Illegitimacy and Family Breakdown. 11. The Crisis -- Conversion: Its Scope and Characteristics. 12. Religious Reform: An Attempt to Deal with the Crisis -- pt. IV. The Social Analysis of the Crisis and Its Connection to the Enlightenment. 13. Family, Ideology, and Crisis: The Personal Connections Between the Enlightened and the Converts.".
• catalog extent "xii, 300 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0195083261".
• catalog isPartOf "Studies in Jewish history".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Berlin (Germany) Ethnic relations.".
• catalog spatial "Germany Berlin".
• catalog spatial "Germany Berlin.".
• catalog subject "943.1/55004924 20".
• catalog subject "DS135.G4 B46725 1993".
• catalog subject "Jews Cultural assimilation Germany Berlin.".
• catalog subject "Jews Emancipation Germany Berlin.".
• catalog subject "Jews Germany Berlin History 18th century.".
• catalog subject "Jews Germany Berlin History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "14. Was the Experience of Women Different from Men's Experience? 15. The Aftermath of the Crisis: Berlin Jewry After 1823 -- pt. V. Conclusion.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Berlin Before Modernity. 1. The Crisis of Berlin Jewry: Introduction to the Problem. 2. A Traditional Jewish Community: Berlin Jewry Before the Changes -- pt. II. The Stage of "Peaceful Modernization" 3. The Seven Years War (1756-1763) and the Emergence of a New Economic Elite. 4. The Intellectuals of the Berlin Haskala. 5. The Lifestyle of Modernizing Berlin Jews. 6. Those Outside the Modernizing Groups: Poor Jews and Orthodox Jews in Berlin -- pt. III. The Crisis of Berlin Jewry. 7. The Struggle for Emancipation and Its Radicalizing Impact. 8. Intellectual Radicalization and Economic Crisis. 9. The Salons. 10. The Crisis: Illegitimacy and Family Breakdown. 11. The Crisis -- Conversion: Its Scope and Characteristics. 12. Religious Reform: An Attempt to Deal with the Crisis -- pt. IV. The Social Analysis of the Crisis and Its Connection to the Enlightenment. 13. Family, Ideology, and Crisis: The Personal Connections Between the Enlightened and the Converts.".
• catalog title "The Berlin Jewish community : enlightenment, family, and crisis, 1770-1830 / Steven M. Lowenstein.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".