| Physical description |
1 online resource (xvi, 351 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in Jewish history |
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Studies in Jewish history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-319) and index. |
| Contents |
I: Women and the construction of Bourgeois culture -- 1. Cultivating respectability: a family enterprise -- Housework and household -- Motherhood: bringing up German-Jewish children -- 2. Domestic Judaism: religion and German-Jewish ethnicity -- Women in Judaism: personal piety, synagogue, and community -- Women in the home: the tenacity and decline of Jewish traditions -- 3. For love or money: Jewish marriage strategies -- To the highest bidder: arranged marriages and dowries, 1871-1918 -- The dowry chase: critical perspectives -- "Modern" marriage in imperial Germany -- 4. The labor of leisure -- What does "leisure" mean to women? -- Home and family: domestic ideals and the goals of leisure -- Beyond the family: the female world of sociability -- II: Jewish women redefine their "place" -- 5. Jewish women confront academia -- Biases against women students -- Choices: turning liabilities into assets -- Student life -- Anti-semitism in the university -- 6. Double barriers, double burdens: women's employment -- Recognized and unrecognized work -- Working population -- Attitudes toward middle-class women and work -- Professional career women -- 7. Her sister's keeper: women's organizations from the Chevra to feminism -- Traditions and social change -- From charity to social work -- World War I. |
| Summary |
Describes the life of Jewish middle-class women in Wilhelmine Germany. Pp. 148-152, "Anti-Semitism in the University, " state that until about 1905 women students, discriminated against because of their sex, tended to show solidarity by forming organizations open to all, in contrast to the segregated male students' organizations. Russian Jewish women were especially despised, even by German Jewish male students. Pp. 182-185 describe discrimination against Jewish teachers, noting that their chances of employment were highly limited. See also the index under "Anti-Semitism." (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism) |
| Language notes |
English. |
| NOTES |
Making of the Jewish middle class |
| Subject |
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1800-1933.
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Jewish women -- Germany.
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Germany -- Ethnic relations.
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Jews Social conditions History. |
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Germany. |
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History |
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Electronic books. |
| Variant Title |
Women, family, and identity in Imperial Germany |
| ISBN |
0195039521 (alk. paper) |
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9780195039528 (alk. paper) |
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0195093968 (pbk.) |
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9780195093964 (pbk.) |
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9786610533213 |
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6610533210 |
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1280533218 |
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9781280533211 |
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