The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family, and Crisis, 1770-1830

by Steven M. Lowenstein

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195083261
• ISBN13: 9780195083262
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"