Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Hertz is Professor of European history and Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies, University of California at San Diego. Klappentext During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day. Princes, nobles, upwardly mobile writers, actors, and beautiful Jewish women flocked to the salons of Rahel Varnhagen, Henriette Herz, and Dorothea von Courland, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the Germen past. Zusammenfassung During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806! Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy! cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day! creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the German past.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Hertz
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2005
• EAN: 9780815629559
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-2955-9
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Modern Jewish History; Modern Jewish History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous