The Making of the Jewish Middle Class

Women and German-Jewish Identity in Imperial Germany

By: Marion A. Kaplan

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Hardcover | 15 August 1991

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This comprehensive study of Jewish women in Imperial Germany (1871-1918) addresses the complex interrelationships of ethnicity, sex, and class. It examines the changing lives and roles of women who were part of an urbanizing, economically mobile, but socially spurned minority group, and also looks at their relationship with the rest of society. The author identifies German-Jewish women's `double burden' as females - discriminated against in both German and Jewish traditions - and as Jews - objects of the increasing anti-Semitism of their era. She also points out the ambiguous, often contradictory role that Jewish women played: they were powerful agents of acculturation, encouraging their families to adapt outwardly to German customs and norms, and also determined upholders of tradition, maintaining family rituals, kin networks, and Jewish communal organizations.

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'Kaplan's book makes an important contribution to the history of German Jews, but it should also encourage historians to investigate women's roles in the formation of Catholic and Protestant middle-class identities.' David F. Crew, University of Texas at Austin, German History, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1993

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Introduction	p. 3
Women and the Construction of Bourgeois Culture
Cultivating Respectability: A Family Enterprise	p. 25
Housework and Household	p. 25
Motherhood: Bringing Up German-Jewish Children	p. 41
Domestic Judaism: Religion and German-Jewish Ethnicity	p. 64
Women in Judaism: Personal Piety, Synagogue, and Community	p. 64
Women in the Home: The Tenacity and Decline of Jewish Traditions	p. 69
For Love or Money: Jewish Marriage Strategies	p. 85
To the Highest Bidder: Arranged Marriages and Dowries, 1871-1918	p. 86
The Dowry Chase: Critical Perspectives	p. 99
"Modern" Marriages in Imperial Germany	p. 108
The Labor of Leisure	p. 117
What Does "Leisure" Mean to Women?	p. 117
Home and Family: Domestic Ideals and the Goals of Leisure	p. 119
Beyond the Family: The Female World of Sociability	p. 126
Jewish Women Redefine Their "Place"
Jewish Women Confront Academia	p. 137
Biases Against Women Students	p. 138
Choices: Turning Liabilities into Assets	p. 143
Student Life	p. 146
Anti-Semitism in the University	p. 148
Double Barriers, Double Burdens: Women's Employment	p. 153
Recognized and Unrecognized Work	p. 153
Working Population	p. 157
Attitudes Toward Middle-Class Women and Work	p. 168
Professional Career Women	p. 171
Her Sister's Keeper: Women's Organizations from the Chevra to Feminism	p. 192
Traditions and Social Change	p. 192
From Charity to Social Work	p. 199
World War I	p. 219
Conclusion	p. 228
Notes	p. 235
Selected Bibliography	p. 304
Index	p. 321
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