In Search of Jewish Community

by Brenner, Michael; Penslar, Derek Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780253334275
• ISBN10: 0253334276
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

"... an excellent collection... well written and cogently argued." -- David N. MyersThe history of Jews in interwar Germany and Austria is often viewed either as the culmination of tremendous success in the economic and cultural realms and of individual assimilation and acculturation, or as the beginning of the road that led to Auschwitz. By contrast, this volume demonstrates a reemerging sense of community within the German-speaking Jewish population of these two countries in the two decades after World War I.

Author Biography

Michael Brenner is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. He is author of The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany and After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany.Derek J. Penslar is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University. He is author of Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1870-1918.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
Michael Brenner
Derek J. Penslar
List of Abbreviations	xvii
German Jews between Fulfillment and Disillusion The Individual and the Community	1	(14)
Shulamit Volkov
Gemeinschaft within Gemeinde Religious Ferment in Weimar Liberal Judaism	15	(21)
Michael A. Meyer
Gemeindeorthodoxie in Weimar Germany The Approaches of Nehemiah Anton Nobel and Isak Unna	36	(20)
David Ellenson
Turning Inward Jewish Youth in Weimar Germany	56	(18)
Michael Brenner
Between Deutschtum and Judentum Ideological Controversies inside the Centralverein	74	(18)
Avraham Barkai
``Verjudung des Judentums'' Was There a Zionist Subculture in Weimar Germany?	92	(23)
Jacob Borut
Written Out of History Bundists in Vienna and the Varieties of Jewish Experience in the Austrian First Republic	115	(19)
Jack Jacobs
Jewish Ethnicity in a New Nation-State The Crisis of Identity in the Austrian Republic	134	(20)
Marsha L. Rozenblit
Gender, Identity, and Community Jewish University Women in Germany and Austria	154	(22)
Harriet Pass Freidenreich
The Crisis of the Jewish Family in Weimar Germany Social Conditions and Cultural Representations	176	(24)
Sharon Gillerman
``Youth in Need'' Correctional Education and Family Breakdown in German Jewish Families	200	(23)
Claudia Prestel
Decline and Survival of Rural Jewish Communities	223	(20)
Steven M. Lowenstein
Contributors	243	(2)
Index	245