Mechanics of Change Essays in the Social History of German Jewry Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	The Pace of Modernization of German Jewry in the Nineteenth Century	9
2	The Readership of Mendelssohn's Bible Translation	29
3	Voluntary and Involuntary Fertility Limitation in Nineteenth Century Bavarian Jewry	65
4	The 1840s and the Creation of the German-Jewish Religious Reform Movement	85
5	The Rural Community and the Urbanization of German Jewry	133
6	Jewish Residential Concentration in Post-Emancipation Germany	153
7	The Yiddish Written Word in Nineteenth Century Germany	183
8	Separatist Orthodoxy's Attitudes Towards Community: The Breuer Community in Germany and America	201
9	The German-Jewish Community of Washington Heights	215
	Index	227