Title The making of the Jewish middle class : women, family, and identity in Imperial Germany / Marion A. Kaplan

Published New York : Oxford University Press, [1991] ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 351 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in Jewish history Studies in Jewish history. 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) Analysis Jews Social conditions History Germany Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-319) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1800-1933. Jewish women -- Germany Ethnic relations Jewish women Jews Bürgertum Jüdin Frauenpolitik Joden. Vrouwen. Burgerij. Jewish women -- Germany. Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1800-1933. Jews -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 1800-1933. Juifs -- Allemagne -- conditions politiques et sociales -- 19e siècle. Juives -- 19e siècle. Juifs -- Familles. Juifs -- Allemagne -- 1800-1933. Juifs -- Allemagne -- Familles -- 19e siècle. SUBJECT Germany -- Ethnic relations Subject Germany Deutschland Germany -- Ethnic relations. Allemagne -- Relations interethniques. Allemagne -- Conditions sociales -- 1918-1933. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0195039521 9780195039528 0195093968 9780195093964 9786610533213 6610533210 1280533218 9781280533211

Other Titles Women, family, and identity in Imperial Germany

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