Germans into Jews
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- Synopsis
- The demographic and social disruptions wrought by World War I catapulted vague 19th-century fears about biological and cultural survival into what many described as an acute crisis, explains Gillerman (Jewish history, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles). The concerns affected many groups across Europe, but she focuses on the Jewish community in defeated Germany, tracing how Jewish social workers, physicians, lay people and religious leaders transformed the postwar crisis into an opportunity for Jewish revitalization. Within the framework of a general debate on gender roles, reproduction, work, and the family, she says, reformers repositioned the bodies of biologically and economically unproductive Jews from the margins of Jewish society to the center of a project to rejuvenate German Jewry. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780804771405
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780804757119
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/16/17
- Copyrighted By:
- the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.