Constructing Modern Identities : Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914.
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- 9780814343517
- 378.1/982/9924043
- DS135.G33 .P535 1999
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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