The Making of the Jewish Middle Class by Marion A Kaplan

The Making of the Jewish Middle Class by Marion A Kaplan

A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private--familial and religious--lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in the university, paid employment and social service. It analyses the changing roles of Jewish women as members of an economically mobile, but socially spurned minority. The author emphasizes the crucial role women played in creating the Jewish middle class, as well as their dual role within the Jewish family and community as powerful agents of class formation and acculturation and determined upholders of tradition.

'Marion Kaplan's thoroughtly researched study provedes a reassessment of the history of this group, which has been the subject of extensive research in the last decade, in the light of the experiences of Jewish bourgeois womenThe study is strongest as a contribution to the social history of the German bourgeoisie - Jewish and non-Jewish.' Journal of Jewish Studies

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ISBN 13	9780195093964
ISBN 10	0195093968
Title	The Making of the Jewish Middle Class
Author	Marion A Kaplan
Series	Studies In Jewish History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	1995-01-05
Number of pages	368
Prizes	Winner of Winner of the 1993 National Jewish Book Award for History.
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