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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783378003321

Autore

Wertheimer Jack

Titolo

Unwelcome strangers [[electronic resource] ] : East European Jews in imperial Germany / / Jack Wertheimer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1987

ISBN

0-19-771758-6

0-19-802157-7

1-280-52527-4

1-4237-3733-4

1-60129-786-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Studies in Jewish history

Disciplina

943/.004924

Soggetti

Jews, East European - Germany - History

Jews - Germany - History - 1800-1933

Jews - Germany - Politics and government

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 bibliography: p. 250-267 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 The Challenge of Jewish Mass Migration; 2 Public Debates Over Eastern Jews; 3 Administrative Solutions; 4 Demographic Characteristics; 5 Economic Pursuits; 6 Organizational Activities; 7 In the Maelstrom of Communal Politics; 8 Social and Cultural Tensions; 9 The Posture of Organized German Jewry; Conclusion: A Comparative Perspective; Abbreviations; Appendix: Statistical Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

When East European Jews migrated westward in ever larger numbers between 1870 and 1914, both German government officials and the leaders of German Jewry were confronted by a series of new challenges. What policies did government leaders devise to cope with the seemingly unending tide of Jews flooding across Germany's borders? What was the actual, as opposed to the perceived, character of these Jewish migrants? How did native Jews respond to the arrival of coreligionists from the East? Drawing on archival research conducted in East and West Germany, Israel, and the United States, Unwelcome Stra