Jewish Integration in the German Army in the First World War / / David J. Fine.

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• VerfasserIn: Fine, David J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)

In Jewish Integration in the German Army in the First World War David J. Fine offers a surprising portrayal of Jewish officers in the German army as integrated and comfortably identified as both Jews and Germans. Fine explores how both Judaism and Christianity were experienced by Jewish soldiers at the front, making an important contribution to the study of the experience of religion in war. Fine shows how the encounter of German Jewish soldiers with the old world of the shtetl on the eastern front tested both their German and Jewish identities. Finally, utilizing published and unpublished sources including letters, diaries, memoirs, military service records, press accounts, photographs, drawings and tomb stone inscriptions, the author argues that antisemitism was not a primary factor in the war experience of Jewish soldiers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Religion at the Front -- Chapter 3: Encountering Eastern European Jewry -- Chapter 4: Antisemitism and Integration -- Afterword -- Appendix: A Selection of Cited Sources from the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons