In Search of Jewish Community

"... an excellent collection... well written and cogently argued." -- David N. MyersThe history of Jews in interwar Germany and Austria is often viewed either as the culmination of tremendous success in the economic and cultural realms and of individual assimilation and acculturation, or as the beginning of the road that led to Auschwitz. By contrast, this volume demonstrates a reemerging sense of community within the German-speaking Jewish population of these two countries in the two decades after World War I.

Michael Brenner is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. He is author of The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany and After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany.Derek J. Penslar is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University. He is author of Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1870-1918.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

ix

Michael Brenner

Derek J. Penslar

List of Abbreviations

xvii

German Jews between Fulfillment and Disillusion The Individual and the Community

1

(14)

Shulamit Volkov

Gemeinschaft within Gemeinde Religious Ferment in Weimar Liberal Judaism

15

(21)

Michael A. Meyer

Gemeindeorthodoxie in Weimar Germany The Approaches of Nehemiah Anton Nobel and Isak Unna

36

(20)

David Ellenson

Turning Inward Jewish Youth in Weimar Germany

56

(18)

Michael Brenner

Between Deutschtum and Judentum Ideological Controversies inside the Centralverein

74

(18)

Avraham Barkai

``Verjudung des Judentums'' Was There a Zionist Subculture in Weimar Germany?

92

(23)

Jacob Borut

Written Out of History Bundists in Vienna and the Varieties of Jewish Experience in the Austrian First Republic

115

(19)

Jack Jacobs

Jewish Ethnicity in a New Nation-State The Crisis of Identity in the Austrian Republic

134

(20)

Marsha L. Rozenblit

Gender, Identity, and Community Jewish University Women in Germany and Austria

154

(22)

Harriet Pass Freidenreich

The Crisis of the Jewish Family in Weimar Germany Social Conditions and Cultural Representations

176

(24)

Sharon Gillerman

``Youth in Need'' Correctional Education and Family Breakdown in German Jewish Families

200

(23)

Claudia Prestel

Decline and Survival of Rural Jewish Communities

223

(20)

Steven M. Lowenstein

Contributors

243

(2)

Index

245

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In Search of Jewish Community

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