Unwelcome Strangers : East European Jews in Imperial Germany Paperback / softback
by Jack (Joseph and Martha Mendelson Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Dir Wertheimer
Part of the Studies in Jewish History series
Paperback / softback
Description
When East European Jews migrated westward in ever larger numbers between 1870 and 1914, both German government officials and the leaders of German Jewry were confronted by a series of new challenges. What policies did government leaders devise to cope with the seemingly unending tide of Jews flooding across Germany's borders? What was the actual, as opposed to the perceived, character of these Jewish migrants?
How did native Jews respond to the arrival ofcoreligionists from the East?
Drawing on archival research conducted in East and West Germany, Israel, and the United States, Unwelcome Strangers probes into these questions, touching on some of the mosttroubling issues in modern German and Jewish history--the behavior of Germans toward strangers in their midst, the status and self-perception of emancipated Jews in pre-Nazi Germany, and the responses of "privileged" Jews to needy, but alien, coreligionists.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:286 pages, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:15/08/1991
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- ISBN:9780195065855
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:286 pages, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:15/08/1991
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195065855
