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Modern Jewish History June 30, 2005
Offers the first detailed analytical social history explaining why this institution arose and what it meant to its participants.

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.


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A welcome surprise . . . [Hertz] asks questions that have generally have been ignored about the origins and social significance ... -- New York Review of Books

An enlivening study of the era. . . . Its special appeal is to cover a neglected area of women's emancipation ... -- Jewish Book News and Reviews

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Deborah Hertz is Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies at the University of California at San Diego.

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  • Paperback: 299 pages
  • Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd) (June 30, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0815629559
  • ISBN-13: 978-0815629559
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A definitive examination of upper-class Jews in Berlin during the latter half of the 1700's and the first half of the 1800's, March 2, 2006
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European history professor Deborah Hertz presents Jewish High Society In Old Regime Berlin, a definitive examination of upper-class Jews in Berlin during the latter half of the 1700's and the first half of the 1800's. Focusing especially upon the salons and those who attended them, Jewish High Society In Old Regime Berlin draws upon statistics, anecdotes, historical references and biographies, and is illustrates with occasional black-and-white diagrams or photographs. Evenhandedly examining the lives of both men and women, Jewish High Society In Old Regime Berlin is smoothly written and highly readable to historians and lay people alike.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I have ever read, June 20, 1997
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One day, while choosing the illustrations for this book, I overheard an archivist describing my topic to a colleague. Read the first page
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gentile grooms, salon participants, noble dilettantes, intermarriage records, dry baptism, salon women, salon men, salon attendance, commoner intellectuals, salon authors, double salon, salon society, estate hierarchy, intellectual clubs, salon friends, male intelligentsia, salon guests, gentile merchants, urban nobles, public leisure, later salons, gentile men, salon circles, noble intellectuals, patriotic intellectuals
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New York, Rahel Levin, Frederick William, Frederick the Great, Dorothea Veit, Henriette Herz, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Schlegel, Gustav von Brinkmann, Markus Herz, Achim von Arnim, Moses Mendelssohn, Friedrich Gentz, Berlin Jews, David Friedländer, Sara Levy, Ludwig Robert, Motte Fouqué, Amalie Beer, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Ludwig Tieck, Rahel Varnhagen, Simon Veit, French Revolution, Royal Academy of Science
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