Constructing Modern Identities : Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Organizations -- I. The Transformation of Jewish Education -- 1. Identity and Education in the Modern Era -- 2. Jewish University Students in Preunification Germany -- II. The Organizational Impulse -- 3. Emancipation and the Reintroduction of the "Jewish Question" at German Universities -- 4. The Emergence of Jewish Student Associations -- III. Defining and Redefining the Subject -- 5. Reconstructing Forgotten Jews: Portraits of the Noncorporate Student Body -- 6. A Coat of Many Colors: German Jewry on the Eve of World War I -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewish.
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Jewish college students-Germany-History-19th century. Jews-Germany-History-1800-1933. Jewish college students-Germany-Societies, etc.-History-19th century. Jews-Germany-Identity. Germany-Ethnic relations.