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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 1979

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

I. HISTORIOGRAPHY

WERNER E. MOSSE: Judaism, Jews and Capitalism Weber, Sombart and Beyond

LAWRENCE SCHOFER: The History of European Jewry Search for a Method

KONRAD KWIET: Problems of Jewish Resistance Historiography

 

II. CULTURAL RAPPROCHEMENT

EVA ENGEL: The Emergence of Moses Mendelssohn as Literary Critic

MOSHE PELLI: The Beginning of the Epistolary Genre in Hebrew Enlightenment Literature in Germany: The Alleged Affinity Between Lettres Persanes and ‘Igrot Meshulam

 

III. EMANCIPATION AND ASSIMILATION

JULIUS CARLEBACH: The Forgotten Connection: Women and Jews in the Conflict between Enlightenment and Romanticism

MICHAEL A. MEYER: The Religious Reform Controversy in the Berlin Jewish Community, 1814–1823

PETER FREIMARK: Language Behaviour and Assimilation: The Situation of the Jews in Northern Germany in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

STEVEN M. LOWENSTEIN: The Yiddish Written Word in Nineteenth-Century Germany

 

IV. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY

PETER FRAENKEL: The Memoirs of B. L. Monasch of Krotoschin

DOLF MICHAELIS: The Ephraim Family and Their Descendants (II)

HELMUT GERNSHEIM: The Gernsheims of Worms

 

V. GERMANY AND PALESTINE

JEHUDA REINHARZ: The Esra Verein and Jewish Colonisation in Palestine

ISAIAH FRIEDMAN: The Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden, the German Foreign Ministry and the Controversy with the Zionists, 1901–1918

FRANCIS R. J. NICOSIA: Weimar Germany and the Palestine Question

 

VI. JEWISH NATIONALISM

PHILIP L. UTLEY: Siegfried Bernfeld’s Jewish Order of Youth, 1914–1922

JOSEPH WALK: Profile of a Local Zionist Association 1903–1904: On the Social History of German Zionism

 

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