Constructing Modern Identities Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914

• Main Author: Pickus, Keith (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Wayne State University Press 2017
• Subjects: Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Social groups: religious groups & communities
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The emergence of Jewish student associations in 1881 provided a forum for Jews to openly proclaim their religious heritage. By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Keith Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewi...