The Population History of German Jewry 1815–1939 : : Based on the Collections and Preliminary Research of Prof. Usiel Oscar Schmelz /

The Population History of German Jewry 1815–1939 : : Based on the Collections and Preliminary Research of Prof. Usiel Oscar Schmelz / / Steven Mark Lowenstein; ed. by Michael Berenbaum, David N. Myers.

AJL 2024 Judaica Reference & Bibliography Awards Honorable MentionThe late Steven Lowenstein was a brilliant social historian who, after retiring from his academic position at the University of Judaism, toiled for years-and up to his final days-to complete this monumental book, which is the defi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
VerfasserIn:
Lowenstein, Steven Mark,
MitwirkendeR:
Berenbaum, Michael,
Myers, David N.,
HerausgeberIn:
Berenbaum, Michael,
Myers, David N.,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (760 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Sergio DellaPergola The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Preface 1. The Life and Work of Steven M. Lowenstein z”l (1945–2020): “From Washington Heights to Skid Row—a Life of Learning and Doing”
  • Preface 2. Steven Lowenstein’s Demographic History
  • Acknowledgments
  • Editors’ Note
  • Introduction
  • CHRONOLOGICAL SECTION
  • 1 From the Fall of Napoleon to the Unification of Germany (1815–1871)
  • 2 German Jewish Population Changes in Imperial Germany (1871–1918)
  • 3 From the “Demographic Crisis” of the 1920s to the Flight to Escape after 1933
  • TOPICAL SECTION
  • 4 Natural Growth and Changes in the German Jewish Family
  • 5 Changing Age Structure
  • 6 Conversion and Intermarriage
  • 7 Migration—Overall Trends and Internal Migration
  • 8 Immigration and Emigration
  • 9 From Countryside to City: Urbanization and the Survival of Small-Town Jewish Communities
  • 10 Jewish Residential Concentration in German Cities
  • REGIONAL SECTION
  • 11 The Eastern Provinces
  • 12 Central and Northwestern Germany—from Sparse Jewish Density to an Urban and Immigrant Center
  • 13 Western Germany
  • 13 Western Germany
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Geographic Names in German and English (Alphabetized in German)
  • Geographic Names in German and English (Alphabetized in German)
  • MAPS
  • Index

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