Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation
Shulamit Volkov
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Description for Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation
Paperback. This book explains why the ferocity of the Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. Num Pages: 326 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
The ferocity of the Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. Volkov argues that a new look at both the nature of antisemitism and at the complexity of modern Jewish life in Germany is required in order to provide an explanation. While antisemitism had a number of functions in pre-Nazi German society, it most particularly served as a cultural code, a sign of belonging to a particular political and cultural milieu. Surprisingly, it only had a limited effect on the lives of the Jews themselves. By the end of the nineteenth century, their integration was well advanced. Many ... Read more
The ferocity of the Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. Volkov argues that a new look at both the nature of antisemitism and at the complexity of modern Jewish life in Germany is required in order to provide an explanation. While antisemitism had a number of functions in pre-Nazi German society, it most particularly served as a cultural code, a sign of belonging to a particular political and cultural milieu. Surprisingly, it only had a limited effect on the lives of the Jews themselves. By the end of the nineteenth century, their integration was well advanced. Many ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521609593
SKU
V9780521609593
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About Shulamit Volkov
Shulamit Volkov is the Konrad Adenauer Chair for Comparative European History and Professor of Modern European History at Tel Aviv University. She was previously a fellow at St Anthony's College, Oxford, the Wissenschaftskolleg, and the Historisches Kolleg. Volkov is the author of The Origins of Popular Antimodernism in Germany: The Urban Master Artisans, 1873–1896 (1978) and the editor of Deutsche ... Read more
Reviews for Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation
'Shulamit Volkov has produced more instructive pieces on the history of the German Jews than virtually any other historian. … her most recent book … deserves particular attention.' German Historical Institute London Bulletin