The Berlin Jewish Community Enlightenment,

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 of Berlin Jews. He has examined tax lists, subscription lists, genealogical records, and address lists as well as kosher meat accounts to give us a vivid picture of daily life. On another level in detailing the complexity of Jewish life in Berlin during this period, this book illuminates the connections between the "peaceful stage" of enlightenment and the crisis that followed.

Steven M. Lowenstein is the Levine Professor of Jewish History at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.

Berlin Before Modernity	p. 1
The Crisis of Berlin Jewry: Introduction to the Problem	p. 3
A Traditional Jewish Community: Berlin Jewry Before the Changes	p. 10
The Stage of "Peaceful Modernization"	p. 23
The Seven Years War (1756-1763) and the Emergence of a New Economic Elite	p. 25
The Intellectuals of the Berlin Haskala	p. 33
The Lifestyle of Modernizing Berlin Jews	p. 43
Those Outside the Modernizing Groups: Poor Jews and Orthodox Jews in Berlin	p. 55
The Crisis of Berlin Jewry	p. 69
The Struggle for Emancipation and Its Radicalizing Impact	p. 75
Intellectual Radicalization and Economic Crisis	p. 89
The Salons	p. 104
The Crisis: Illegitimacy and Family Breakdown	p. 111
The Crisis--Conversion: Its Scope and Characteristics	p. 120
Religious Reform: An Attempt to Deal with the Crisis	p. 134
The Social Analysis of the Crisis and Its Connection to the Enlightenment	p. 149
Family, Ideology, and Crisis: The Personal Connections Between the Enlightened and the Converts	p. 151
Was the Experience of Women Different from Men's Experience?	p. 162
The Aftermath of the Crisis: Berlin Jewry After 1823	p. 177
Conclusion	p. 183
Conclusion	p. 185
Notes	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 277
Index	p. 284
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The Berlin Jewish Community Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770-1830

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