Deborah Hertz
Biographic Data
| ID | 542255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Hertz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Hertz |
| SIGNATURE | HERTZ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sarah Lawrence College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Jews Became Germans
When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, an urgent priority was to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast system of conversion and intermarriage records was created in Berlin, the country’s premier Jewish city. Deborah Hertz’s discovery of these records, the Judenkartei , was the first step on a long research journey that has led to this …
Toward a definition of mass conversion: Comments on klausner’s discussion of the conversion of American Jews
Contacts and Relations in the Pre-Emancipation Period - A Comment
A student in a large lecture class of mine on the Holocaust once prefaced a question with the statement that “unlike you, we, after all, did not experience World War II.” Since I was born several years after 1945, my student's remark obviously wounded my vanity! Reading the essays by Wexler, Guggenheim, and Jütte in Part III of this volume brought my student's remark to mind. All three essays are markedly postwar in theme and method. Each of the …
In and out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany
During the 1920s much attention was paid to the history of Jews in Germany since the Enlightenment and the subject became popular again, with renewed emphasis, after 1945. Many historians were deeply committed to understanding and explaining the tragic path that led from the emancipation of the Jews to the Holocaust. For a long time, much less work was done on the history of Jews in Germany in earlier periods, particularly the period between the …
Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe . Jonathan Frankel , Steven J. Zipperstein Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848- 1933 . Peter Pulzer ,…
Revolutionary Antisemitism in Germany: From Kant to Wagner. Paul Lawrence Rose
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few Jewish women such as Rahel Varnhagen and Henrietta Herz to discuss the events of the day, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the German past. In this book, Deborah Hertz offers the first detailed history of these salons, interweaving rich narrative with analytic social his…
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
The Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History
Contents Introduction * From Brideprice to Dowry in Mediterranean Europe * Women, Dowries, and Capital Investment in Thirteenth-Century Siena * Trousseau as Treasure: Some Contradictions of Late Nineteenth-Century Change in Sicily * For Love or Money: The Marriage Strategies of Jews in Imperial Germany * Dowry in Modern Greece: An Institution at the Crossroads Between Persistence and Decline * Index
Intermarriage in the Berlin Salons
In 1776, Moses Isaacs died in Berlin. Along with Isaac Daniel Itzig and Veitel Heine Ephraim, Isaacs had made a fortune during the Seven Years' War minting coins and supplying the army. Isaacs left behind an estate of three-quarters of a million talers in gold, most of which was organized into a family trust extending to the life of the grandchildren. The only stipulation Isaacs placed on his will was that should any of his five surviving childre…
Salonieres and Literary Women in Late Eighteenth-Century Berlin
It became a tradition in some early modern cities for members of the urban nobility and the intelligentsia to meet regularly in the of a prominent woman for intellectual conversation.2 In Germany, where they appeared only toward the end of the eighteenth century, most of the salons were in Berlin.3 But the scholarly attention which the Berlin salons have hitherto received has been anecdotal and impressionistic. Without information about the socia…
The Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History
Contents Introduction * From Brideprice to Dowry in Mediterranean Europe * Women, Dowries, and Capital Investment in Thirteenth-Century Siena * Trousseau as Treasure: Some Contradictions of Late Nineteenth-Century Change in Sicily * For Love or Money: The Marriage Strategies of Jews in Imperial Germany * Dowry in Modern Greece: An Institution at the Crossroads Between Persistence and Decline * Index
Intermarriage in the Berlin Salons
In 1776, Moses Isaacs died in Berlin. Along with Isaac Daniel Itzig and Veitel Heine Ephraim, Isaacs had made a fortune during the Seven Years' War minting coins and supplying the army. Isaacs left behind an estate of three-quarters of a million talers in gold, most of which was organized into a family trust extending to the life of the grandchildren. The only stipulation Isaacs placed on his will was that should any of his five surviving childre…
Salonieres and Literary Women in Late Eighteenth-Century Berlin
It became a tradition in some early modern cities for members of the urban nobility and the intelligentsia to meet regularly in the of a prominent woman for intellectual conversation.2 In Germany, where they appeared only toward the end of the eighteenth century, most of the salons were in Berlin.3 But the scholarly attention which the Berlin salons have hitherto received has been anecdotal and impressionistic. Without information about the socia…
Salonieres and Literary Women in Late Eighteenth-Century Berlin
It became a tradition in some early modern cities for members of the urban nobility and the intelligentsia to meet regularly in the of a prominent woman for intellectual conversation.2 In Germany, where they appeared only toward the end of the eighteenth century, most of the salons were in Berlin.3 But the scholarly attention which the Berlin salons have hitherto received has been anecdotal and impressionistic. Without information about the socia…
Intermarriage in the Berlin Salons
In 1776, Moses Isaacs died in Berlin. Along with Isaac Daniel Itzig and Veitel Heine Ephraim, Isaacs had made a fortune during the Seven Years' War minting coins and supplying the army. Isaacs left behind an estate of three-quarters of a million talers in gold, most of which was organized into a family trust extending to the life of the grandchildren. The only stipulation Isaacs placed on his will was that should any of his five surviving childre…
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
The Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History
Contents Introduction * From Brideprice to Dowry in Mediterranean Europe * Women, Dowries, and Capital Investment in Thirteenth-Century Siena * Trousseau as Treasure: Some Contradictions of Late Nineteenth-Century Change in Sicily * For Love or Money: The Marriage Strategies of Jews in Imperial Germany * Dowry in Modern Greece: An Institution at the Crossroads Between Persistence and Decline * Index
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few Jewish women such as Rahel Varnhagen and Henrietta Herz to discuss the events of the day, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the German past. In this book, Deborah Hertz offers the first detailed history of these salons, interweaving rich narrative with analytic social his…
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
Revolutionary Antisemitism in Germany: From Kant to Wagner. Paul Lawrence Rose
Contacts and Relations in the Pre-Emancipation Period - A Comment
A student in a large lecture class of mine on the Holocaust once prefaced a question with the statement that “unlike you, we, after all, did not experience World War II.” Since I was born several years after 1945, my student's remark obviously wounded my vanity! Reading the essays by Wexler, Guggenheim, and Jütte in Part III of this volume brought my student's remark to mind. All three essays are markedly postwar in theme and method. Each of the …
In and out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany
During the 1920s much attention was paid to the history of Jews in Germany since the Enlightenment and the subject became popular again, with renewed emphasis, after 1945. Many historians were deeply committed to understanding and explaining the tragic path that led from the emancipation of the Jews to the Holocaust. For a long time, much less work was done on the history of Jews in Germany in earlier periods, particularly the period between the …
Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe . Jonathan Frankel , Steven J. Zipperstein Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848- 1933 . Peter Pulzer ,…
Toward a definition of mass conversion: Comments on klausner’s discussion of the conversion of American Jews
How Jews Became Germans
When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, an urgent priority was to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast system of conversion and intermarriage records was created in Berlin, the country’s premier Jewish city. Deborah Hertz’s discovery of these records, the Judenkartei , was the first step on a long research journey that has led to this …
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