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German Jews in Love
A History

English · Hardback

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"This book explores the dynamic role of love in German-Jewish lives, from the birth of the German Empire in the 1870s, to the 1970s, a generation after the Shoah. During a remarkably turbulent hundred-year period when German Jews experienced five political regimes, rapid urbanization, transformations in gender relations, and war and genocide, the romantic ideals of falling in love and marrying for love helped German Jews to develop a new sense of self. Appeals to romantic love were also significant in justifying relationships between Jews and non-Jews, even when those unions created conflict within and between communities. By incorporating novel approaches from the history of emotions and life-cycle history, Christian Bailey moves beyond existing research into the sexual and racial politics of modern Germany and approaches a new frontier in the study of subjectivity and the self. German Jews in Love draws on a rich array of sources, from newspapers and love letters to state and other official records. Calling on this evidence, Bailey shows the ways German Jews' romantic relationships reveal an aspect of acculturation that has been overlooked: how deeply cultural scripts worked their way into emotions; those most intimate and seemingly pre-political aspects of German-Jewish subjectivity"--


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Christian Bailey is Assistant Professor of History at Purchase College.


Product details

Authors Christian Bailey
Publisher Stanford University Press
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 30.11.2022
Subject Humanities, art, music > History
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
 
EAN 9781503632790
ISBN 978-1-5036-3279-0
Pages 304
 
Series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Stanford Studies in Jewish His
Subjects HISTORY / Europe / Germany
HISTORY / Social History
HISTORY / Jewish
History - General History
 

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