Jewish Integration in the German Army in the First World War
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Jewish Integration in the German Army in the First World War
David J. Fine offers a surprising portrayal of Jewish officers in the German army as integrated and comfortably identified as both Jews and Germans. Fine explores how both Judaism and Christianity were experienced by Jewish soldiers at the front, making an important contribution to the study of the experience of religion in war. Fine shows how the encounter of German Jewish soldiers with the old world of the shtetl on the eastern front tested both their German and Jewish identities. Finally, utilizing published and unpublished sources including letters, diaries, memoirs, military service records, press accounts, photographs, drawings and tomb stone inscriptions, the author argues that antisemitism was not a primary factor in the war experience of Jewish soldiers.
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2 - List of Tables [Seite 12]
3 - List of Illustrations [Seite 13]
4 - Chapter 1: Introduction [Seite 14]
4.1 - The Story of a Minority [Seite 14]
4.2 - Jewish Patriotism [Seite 23]
4.3 - The Judenzählung of 1916 [Seite 27]
4.4 - Jewish Participation in the German War Effort [Seite 29]
5 - Chapter 2: Religion at the Front [Seite 32]
6 - Chapter 3: Encountering Eastern European Jewry [Seite 84]
6.1 - Discomforting Encounters [Seite 88]
6.2 - Neutral Encounters [Seite 95]
6.3 - Comforting Encounters [Seite 100]
7 - Chapter 4: Antisemitism and Integration [Seite 108]
7.1 - Experiencing Antisemitism [Seite 109]
7.2 - Promotion of Jewish Soldiers as Officers [Seite 113]
7.3 - Jewish Reserve Officers Before the War [Seite 118]
7.4 - Evidence for Integration in the Bavarian Army During the War [Seite 124]
7.5 - Integration Without Antisemitism [Seite 140]
8 - Afterword [Seite 142]
8.1 - The Germanness of the German Jew [Seite 142]
9 - Appendix: A Selection of Cited Sources from the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums [Seite 144]
10 - Bibliography [Seite 180]
10.1 - Primary Sources [Seite 180]
10.2 - Secondary Sources [Seite 182]
11 - Index of Persons [Seite 192]
