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What can Jewish history tell us about German history? How can we understand the history of modern Germany from a Jewish perspective? And how do we bring the voices of German Jews to the fore? Germany through Jewish Eyes explores the dramatic course of German history, from the Enlightenment, through wars and revolutions, unification and reunification, Nazi dictatorship, Holocaust, and the rebuilding of a prosperous, modern democracy - all from a Jewish perspective. Through a series of chronologically ordered life-stories, Shulamit Volkov examines how the lived experience of German Jewry can provide new insights into familiar events and long-term developments. Her study explores the plurality of the Jewish gaze, considering how German Jews sought full equality and integration while attempting to preserve a unique identity, and how they experienced security and integration as well as pronounced hatred. Volkov's innovative study offers readers the opportunity to look again at the pivotal moments of German history with a fresh understanding.

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Author:   Shulamit Volkov (Tel-Aviv University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009506496

ISBN 10:   1009506498
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   31 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: A Jewish Gaze – Plural and Unique; Part I. Learning to Know Germany: 1780–1840; 1. Enlightenment without Toleration; 2. Benevolent Autocracy; 3. The Half-Open Society; Part II. Liberty, Unity, Equality: 1840–1870; 4. Pogroms and Revolution; 5. Germany's Entangled Modernities; 6. Unification as Rupture; Part III. Living in Germany: 1870–1930; 7. Achievements and Unacknowledged Dangers; 8. Joined and Disjoint in War; 9. Hopes Shattered; Part IV. A Lost Homeland: 1930–2000; 10. The Abyss; 11. Victims, Witnesses, Plaintiffs; 12. Strangers at Home; Epilogue: Berlin is No Weimar.

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Shulamit Volkov is Professor Emerita of History at Tel Aviv University. She holds research interests in German social history, the history of Antisemitism and the history of the German Jews. Previous publications include Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation (Cambridge, 2006), and Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman (2012).

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