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  • The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany
  • Written by author Marion A. Kaplan
  • Published by Oxford University Press, USA, August 1991
  • The Making of the Jewish Middle Class eloquently explores the multiple and contradictory intersections of women's Jewish, and German history in the Imperial era.
  • A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private—familial and religious—lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in
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Introduction3
Part 1Women and the Construction of Bourgeois Culture
1.Cultivating Respectability: A Family Enterprise25
Housework and Household25
Motherhood: Bringing Up German-Jewish Children41
2.Domestic Judaism: Religion and German-Jewish Ethnicity64
Women in Judaism: Personal Piety, Synagogue, and Community64
Women in the Home: The Tenacity and Decline of Jewish Traditions69
3.For Love or Money: Jewish Marriage Strategies85
To the Highest Bidder: Arranged Marriages and Dowries, 1871-191886
The Dowry Chase: Critical Perspectives99
"Modern" Marriages in Imperial Germany108
4.The Labor of Leisure117
What Does "Leisure" Mean to Women?117
Home and Family: Domestic Ideals and the Goals of Leisure119
Beyond the Family: The Female World of Sociability126
Part 2Jewish Women Redefine Their "Place"
5.Jewish Women Confront Academia137
Biases Against Women Students138
Choices: Turning Liabilities into Assets143
Student Life146
Anti-Semitism in the University148
6.Double Barriers, Double Burdens: Women's Employment153
Recognized and Unrecognized Work153
Working Population157
Attitudes Toward Middle-Class Women and Work168
Professional Career Women171
7.Her Sister's Keeper: Women's Organizations from the Chevra to Feminism192
Traditions and Social Change192
From Charity to Social Work199
World War I219
Conclusion228
Notes235
Selected Bibliography304
Index321


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