
The Making of the Jewish Middle Class
Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany
Marion A. Kaplan(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 5. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-19-509396-4 (ISBN)
Description
A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private--familial and religious--lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in the university, paid employment and social service. It analyses the changing roles of Jewish women as members of an economically mobile, but socially spurned minority. The author emphasizes the crucial role women played in creating the Jewish middle class, as well as their dual role within the Jewish family and community as powerful agents of class formation and acculturation and determined upholders of tradition.
Reviews / Votes
'Marion Kaplan's thoroughtly researched study provedes a reassessment of the history of this group, which has been the subject of extensive research in the last decade, in the light of the experiences of Jewish bourgeois women. The study is strongest as a contribution to the social history of the German bourgeoisie - Jewish and non-Jewish.'Journal of Jewish Studies
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
halftones, tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
597 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-509396-4 (9780195093964)
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Marion A. Kaplan
The Making of the Jewish Middle Class
Women and German-Jewish Identity in Imperial Germany
Book
10/1991
Oxford University Press
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Professor of History, Queens CollegeProfessor of History, Queens College, City University of New York