The Berlin Jewish community: enlightenment, family, and crisis, 1770-1830
The Berlin Jewish community was both the pioneer in intellectual modernization and the first to experience a crisis of modernity. This original and imaginative book connects intellectual and political transformation with the social structures and daily activities of the Jewish community. Steven M. L...
| Riepilogo: | The Berlin Jewish community was both the pioneer in intellectual modernization and the first to experience a crisis of modernity. This original and imaginative book connects intellectual and political transformation with the social structures and daily activities of the Jewish community. Steven M. Lowenstein has used extraordinarily rich documentation about the life of Berlin Jewry in the period and assembled a collective biography of the entire community of Berlin Jews. He has examined tax lists, subscription lists, genealogical records, and address lists as well as kosher meat accounts to gi |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-283) and index. - Description based on print version record |
| Descrizione fisica: | Online Ressource (xii, 300 p.), ill., map. |
| ISBN: | 0195083261 |