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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452104403321

Autore

Fine David J

Titolo

Jewish integration in the German army in the First World War [[electronic resource] /] / David J. Fine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : De Gruyter, 2012

ISBN

1-280-57051-2

9786613600110

3-11-026816-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

New perspectives on modern Jewish history, , 2192-9645 ; ; v. 2

Disciplina

940.4/1343089924

Soggetti

Jewish soldiers - Germany - History - 20th century

Jews - Germany - History - 20th century

Jews - Germany - Social conditions - 20th century

Social integration - Germany

World War, 1914-1918 - Jews - Germany

World War, 1914-1918 - Participation, Jewish

Electronic books.

Germany Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Religion at the Front -- Chapter 3: Encountering Eastern European Jewry -- Chapter 4: Antisemitism and Integration -- Afterword -- Appendix: A Selection of Cited Sources from the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons

Sommario/riassunto

In Jewish Integration in the German Army in the First World War David J. Fine offers a surprising portrayal of Jewish officers in the German army as integrated and comfortably identified as both Jews and Germans. Fine explores how both Judaism and Christianity were experienced by Jewish soldiers at the front, making an important contribution to the study of the experience of religion in war. Fine shows how the encounter of German Jewish soldiers with the old world of the shtetl on



the eastern front tested both their German and Jewish identities. Finally, utilizing published and unpublished sources including letters, diaries, memoirs, military service records, press accounts, photographs, drawings and tomb stone inscriptions, the author argues that antisemitism was not a primary factor in the war experience of Jewish soldiers.