ISBN:
9780299091132
,
0299091139
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 331 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Brothers and strangers
DDC:
306/.089924043
Keywords:
BMBF-Statusseminar
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Jews, East European Germany
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Jews Intellectual life
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Germany
;
Jews, East European
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
Jews, East European
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Ethnic relations
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Jews, East European
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Jews ; Intellectual life
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Juden
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Ostjuden
;
Joden
;
Etnische betrekkingen
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Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East
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History & Archaeology
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Middle East
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Germany Ethnic relations
;
Germany
;
Germany Ethnic relations
;
Germany Ethnic relations
;
Deutschland
;
Ostjuden
;
Germany
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Brothers and Strangers traces the history of German Jewish attitudes, policies, and stereotypical images toward Eastern European Jews, demonstrating the ways in which the historic rupture between Eastern and Western Jewry developed as a function of modernism and its imperatives. By the 1880s, most German Jews had inherited and used such negative images to symbolize rejection of their own ghetto past and to emphasize the contrast between modern "enlightened" Jewry and its "half-Asian" counterpart. Moreover, stereotypes of the ghetto and the Eastern Jew figured prominently in the growth and disposition of German anti-Semitism. Not everyone shared these negative preconceptions, however, and over the years a competing post-liberal image emerged of the Ostjude as cultural hero. Brothers and Strangers examines the genesis, development, and consequences of these changing forces in their often complex cultural, political, and intellectual contexts
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-323) and index. - Description based on print version record
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