Jewish Women In Enlightenment Berlin

Author : Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789624789
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Women in Enlightenment Berlin written by Natalie Naimark-Goldberg and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The encounter of Jews with the Enlightenment movement has so far been considered almost entirely from a masculine perspective. This highly original study, based on analysis of the correspondence and literary works of a group of educated Jewish women, demonstrates their intellectual proclivities, feminine awareness, and social activities, as well as their attitudes to marriage, traditional family frameworks, and religion. In doing so it makes a significant contribution to German Jewish history as well as to gender studies.

Author : Rebecca Cypess
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580469213
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sara Levy's World written by Rebecca Cypess and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich interdisciplinary exploration of the world of Sara Levy, a Jewish salonnière and skilled performing musician in late eighteenth-century Berlin, and her impact on the Bach revival, German-Jewish life, and Enlightenment culture.

Author : Deborah Hertz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815629559
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin written by Deborah Hertz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day. Princes, nobles, upwardly mobile writers, actors, and beautiful Jewish women flocked to the salons of Rahel Varnhagen, Henriette Herz, and Dorothea von Courland, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the German past.

Author : Steven M. Lowenstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195359429
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Berlin Jewish Community written by Steven M. Lowenstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Berlin Jewish community was both the pioneer in intellectual modernization and the first to experience a crisis of modernity. This original and imaginative book connects intellectual and political transformation with the social structures and daily activities of the Jewish community. Steven M. Lowenstein has used extraordinarily rich documentation about the life of Berlin Jewry in the period and assembled a collective biography of the entire community of Berlin Jews. He has examined tax lists, subscription lists, genealogical records, and address lists as well as kosher meat accounts to give us a vivid picture of daily life. On another level in detailing the complexity of Jewish life in Berlin during this period, this book illuminates the connections between the "peaceful stage" of enlightenment and the crisis that followed.

Author : Shmuel Feiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851242917
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Cultural Revolution in Berlin written by Shmuel Feiner and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of secularization, which is one of the sources of present-day democracy, has its radical origins in eighteenth-century Europe. Criticism of religious norms and discipline, institutions and ideology led to the movement known as the Enlightenment. Its Jewish protagonists (the maskilim), a young intellectual elite, undertook the role of culturally revolutionizing eighteenth-century Jewish society. They aimed at overturning the monopolistic control of rabbinic scholars over education, publications, and social behaviour in favour of secular intellectual values. They sought to promote political rights and religious tolerance, embraced humanism, rationalism, and freedom of opinion. In turn, the end of Jewish isolation brought about a significant contribution to philosophy, science, and art, and participation in the culture of modern European society.This introduction to the emergence of Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) in Germany pays special attention to its most famous figure, Moses Mendelssohn, who was active at the centre of the Enlightenment in Berlin. The volume is richly illustrated with images of eighteenth-century manuscripts, books, and pamphlets, some of which are published here for the first time, and which derive from a collection assembled by the famous nineteenth-century scholar Leopold Zunz. This is an attractive book providing an excellent guide to the major cultural metamorphosis represented by Jewish Enlightenment.

Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375893
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rahel Varnhagen written by Hannah Arendt and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a Jewish woman, a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, written by one of the twentieth century's most prominent intellectuals, Hannah Arendt. Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman was Hannah Arendt’s first book, largely completed when she went into exile from Germany in 1933, though not published until the 1950s. It is the biography of a remarkable, complicated, passionate woman, and an important figure in German romanticism. Rahel Varnhagen also bore the burdens of being an unusual woman in a man’s world and an assimilated Jew in Germany. She was, Arendt writes, “neither beautiful nor attractive . . . and possessed no talents with which to employ her extraordinary intelligence and passionate originality.” Arendt sets out to tell the story of Rahel’s life as Rahel might have told it and, in doing so, to reveal the way in which assimilation defined one person’s destiny. On her deathbed Rahel is reported to have said, “The thing which all my life seemed to me the greatest shame, which was the misery and misfortune of my life—having been born a Jewess—this I should on no account now wish to have missed.” Only because she had remained both a Jew and a pariah, Arendt observes, “did she find a place in the history of European humanity.”

Author : Emily D. Bilski
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300108460
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Women and Their Salons written by Emily D. Bilski and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look at the history of Jewish women’s salons and their influence on art, music, literature, and politics From their debut in Berlin in the 1780s to their emergence in 1930s California, Jewish women’s salons served as welcoming havens where all classes and creeds could openly debate art, music, literature, and politics. This fascinating book is the first to explore the history of these salons where remarkable women of intellect resolved that neither gender nor religion would impede their ability to bring about social change. Emily D. Bilski and Emily Braun examine the lives of more than a dozen Jewish saloni�res, charting the evolution of the salon over time and among cultures, in cities including Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London, New York, and Milan. They show how each woman uniquely adapted the salon to suit her own interests while maintaining the salon’s key characteristics of basic informality and a diversity of guests. Other distinguished contributors to the volume discuss in detail the Berlin salons of the 1800s; the salon in terms of Jewish acculturation and its relation to gender and music; and the relations of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, and Gertrude Stein to the literary salon. The book is enriched with a lavish array of illustrations, including documentary photographs, paintings, drawings, prints, and decorative arts. Among the saloni�res portrayed in the book: Henriette Herz, the first Jewish woman to host a salon Ada Leverson, who welcomed Oscar Wilde to her salon even after his controversial arrest Anna Kuliscioff, an activist ardently opposed to the oppression of women Margherita Sarfatti, who acted as Mussolini’s political partner Gertrude Stein, an expatriate whose famous salon has been deemed the first museum of modern art Exhibition schedule: The Jewish Museum, New York, March 4 – July 10, 2005 McMullen Museum of Art, Boson College, September – December, 2005 Published in association with The Jewish Museum, New York Emily D. Bilski is an independent scholar and curator specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and cultural history. Emily Braun is professor of art history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

Author : Iris Parush
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584653677
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Jewish Women written by Iris Parush and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush opens up the hitherto unexamined world of literate Jewish women, their reading habits, and their role in the cultural modernization of Eastern European Jewish society in the nineteenth century. Parush makes a paradoxical claim: she argues that because Jewish women were marginalized and neglected by rabbinical authorities who regarded men as the bearers of religious learning, they were free to read secular literature in German, Yiddish, Polish, and Russian. As a result of their exposure to a wealth of literature, these reading women became significant conduits for Haskalah (Enlightenment) ideas and ideals within the Jewish community. This deceptively simple thesis dramatically challenges and revamps both scholarly and popular notions of Jewish life and learning in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe. While scholars of European women's history have been transforming and complicating ideas about the historical roles of middle-class women for some time, Parush is among the first scholars to work exclusively in Jewish territory. The book will be a very welcome introduction to many facets of modern Jewish cultural historyÑparticularly the role of womenÑwhich have too long been ignored.

Author : Marion A. Kaplan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195039521
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Jewish Middle Class written by Marion A. Kaplan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Author : Rebecca Cypess
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226817911
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment written by Rebecca Cypess and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical salons as liminal spaces: salonnières as agents of musical culture -- Sensuality, sociability, and sympathy: musical salon practices as enactments of Enlightenment --Ephemerae and authorship in the salon of Madame Brillon -- Composition, collaboration, and the cultivation of skill in the salon of Marianna Martines -- The cultural work of collecting and performing in the salon of Sara Levy -- Musical improvisation and poetic painting in the salon of Angelica Kauffman -- Reading musically in the salon of Elizabeth Graeme -- Conclusion.