The Scholems : : A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction / / Jay Howard Geller.
The evocative and riveting stories of four brothers-Gershom the Zionist, Werner the Communist, Reinhold the nationalist, and Erich the liberal-weave together in The Scholems, a biography of an eminent middle-class Jewish Berlin family and a social history of the Jews in Germany in the decades leadin...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Map of the Scholems' Berlin in the 1920s
- Members of the Scholem Family
- Introduction
- 1. Origins: From Glogau to Berlin
- 2. Berlin Childhood around 1900: Growing Up in the Growing Metropolis
- 3. Things Fall Apart: The First World War
- 4. Life in the Time of Revolutions: The Early Weimar Republic
- 5. The Gold-Plated Twenties and Beyond: Promise, Prosperity, and Depression in Interwar Germany
- 6. In the Promised Land: A New Home in Jerusalem
- 7. The Maelstrom: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
- 8. Cresting of the Fifth Wave: Gershom Scholem's Palestine in the 1930s
- 9. Afterlives: Sydney and Jerusalem
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index