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Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945

  • Marion A. Kaplan

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From the seventeenth century until the Holocaust, Germany's Jews lurched between progress and setback, between fortune and terrible misfortune. German society shunned Jews in the eighteenth century and opened unevenly to them in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, only to turnmurderous in the Nazi era. By examining the everyday lives of ordinary Jews, this book portrays the drama of German-Jewish history -- the gradual ascent of Jews from impoverished outcasts to comfortable bourgeois citizens and then their dramatic descent into genocidal torment during the Nazi years.Building on social, economic, religious, and political history, it focuses on the qualitative aspects of ordinary life -- emotions, subjective impressions, and quotidian perceptions. How did ordinary Jews and their families make sense of their world? How did they construe changes brought about byindustrialization? ...

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  • History
  • Nonfiction
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  • Marion A. Kaplan

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    Oxford University Press, USA

    February 3, 2005

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    Oxford University Press

    2004

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    Oxford University Press

    2007