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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"German Jews"”.
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FROM SELLING RAGS TO WEARING RICHES: GERMAN JEWS' ECONOMIC PROGRESS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
This study investigates how mainstream German Jews in the first half of the nineteenth century moved from the edges of society into the German economic middle class, as their marginal occupations, especially petty commerce and peddling, inadvertently positioned them to be at the forefront of German …
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The distorted image: German Jewish perceptions of Germans and Germany, 1918-1935
<p>The regime confronting German Jewry in 1933 was of a type unprecedented in German history. Yet the German Jewish responses were, on the whole, consistent with responses to former regimes. There was little resistance, relatively little emigration until 1935 to 1938, pledges of loyalty to the new …
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"Worse than the Gestapo"? Berlin Jews accused of collaboration during and after the Shoah
… the 1960s, considering the perspectives of both German Jews and non-Jews from East and West Germany. Drawing on antisemitism studies and bridging the gap between the Holocaust and its aftermath, the thesis analyses the extent to which these differing narratives influenced the process of coming to …
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Reading Science in Early Writings of Leopold Zunz and Rifāʿa Rāfiʿ al-Ṭahṭāwī: On Beginnings of the Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Nahḍa
… two nineteenth century movements and fields--the German Wissenschaft des Judentums (Science of Judaism) and the Arab nahda (Renaissance)--moving between what these developments are at their beginnings and what they have come to be through later developments and representations. I argue that both …
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Silence, Self and Sacrifice in Gertrud Kolmar’s Prose and Dramatic Works
… claimed to domesticate the difference of the Jews by encouraging Jews to adopt attributes of gentile society and shed markers of belonging that identified Jews as other. However, the anti-Semitic basis of assimilation prevented the proposed processes of integration and acceptance of Jews from …
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The holocaust and apartheid: similarities and differences: a comparative study
… race, but while the tools used by the Nazis in Germany and the apartheid government in South Africa are superficially similar, their very different objectives brought about radically different outcomes once their policies were enforced. The dissertation opens with a discussion of the methods …
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Culture and Exchange: The Jews of Königsberg, 1700-1820
… I describe the triangular relationship of the Jews, the Prussian crown, and local municipal leadership in the city during the slow growth of the absolutist state in the eighteenth century. In particular, the dissertation investigates the Aleinu Edict of 1703 and the creation of an organized …