Brothers and strangers
the east European Jew in German and German Jewish consciousness, 1800-1923
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Author
Publication
1999 - University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin
Language
English
Word Count
82,750 words, Guess
Page Count
331 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100299091147
- ISBN-139780299091149
- LibraryThing411158
- Goodreads995561
- Library of Congress Control Number99031830
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780299091149
- Better World BooksO9-AWZ-022
- Open LibraryOL40781M
Classifications
- DDC306/.08924043
- LCCDS135.G33 A76 1999
- LCCDS135.G33A76 1999
Description
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 German Jews had inherited and used such negative images to symbolize rejection of their own ghetto past and to emphasize the contrast between modern "enlightened" Jewry and its "half-Asian" counterpart. Moreover, stereotypes of the ghetto and the Eastern Jew figured prominently in the growth and disposition of German anti-Semitism. Not everyone shared these negative preconceptions, however, and over the years a competing post-liberal image emerged of the Ostjude as cultural hero. Brothers and Strangers examines the genesis, development, and consequences of these changing forces in their often complex cultural, political, and intellectual contexts.
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