How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin

by Deborah Hertz

Book Overview

When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, an urgent priority was to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast system of conversion and intermarriage records was created in Berlin, the country's premier Jewish city. Deborah Hertz's discovery of these records, the Judenkartei, was the first step on a long research journey that has led to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300151640
• ISBN13: 9780300151640
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"