Brothers and strangers : the east European Jew in German and German Jewish consciousness, 1800-1923

Brothers and strangers : the east European Jew in German and German Jewish consciousness, 1800-1923 / Steven E. Aschheim.

Brothers and Strangers traces the history of German Jewish attitudes, policies, and stereotypical images toward Eastern European Jews, demonstrating the ways in which the historic rupture between Eastern and Western Jewry developed as a function of modernism and its imperatives. By the 1880s, most G...

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Main Author: Aschheim, Steven E., 1942-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1982.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
BMBF-Statusseminar
Geschichte 1800-1923.
Jews, East European > Germany.
Jews > Germany > Intellectual life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Ethnic relations
Jews, East European
Jews > Intellectual life
Juden
Ostjuden
Joden.
Etnische betrekkingen.
Jews, East European > Germany > History.
Germany > Ethnic relations.
Germany
Deutschland
Ostjuden.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • 1. GERMAN JEWRY AND THE MAKING OF THE OSTJUDE, 1800-1880
  • 2. THE AMBIVALENT HERITAGE: Liberal Jews and the Ostjuden, 1880-1914
  • 3. CAFTAN AND CRAVAT: "Old" Jews, "New" Jews, and Pre-World War I Anti-Semitism
  • 4. ZIONISM AND THE OSTJUDEN: The Ambiguity of Nationalization
  • 5. IDENTITY AND CULTURE: The Ostjude as Counter-Myth
  • 6. FROM RATIONALISM TO MYTH: Martin Buber and the Reception of Hasidism
  • 7. STRANGE ENCOUNTER: Germany, World War I, and the Ostjuden
  • 8. THE CULT OF THE OSTJUDEN: The War and Beyond
  • 9. JEWISH IDENTITY, OSTJUDEN, AND ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
  • 10. THE INVERTED IMAGE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.

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