Shulamit and Margarete
Shulamit and Margarete

Author: Claudia Ulbrich

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-22

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9004473386

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Shulamit and Margarete takes a microhistorical look at a small village on the border of Germany and France in the eighteenth century. Drawing on the rich source material of the village, it casts a searching light on the boundaries created by language, states, religions, cultures, sex, and gender. By writing the history of the village from multiple perspectives, the author is able to uncover fascinating artefacts of a cultural contact between Christians and Jews, and to gain insights into the agency and experiences of women in rural society. The book is enhanced by a variety of sources and illustrations relating to Jewish history, such as the last will of Abraham Levy and the previously unknown portraits of Fromette Levy and Bernard Lipmann.

Jews in the Early Modern World
Jews in the Early Modern World

Author: Dean Phillip Bell

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780742545182

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Jews in the Early Modern World presents a comparative and global history of the Jews for the early modern period, 1400-1700. It traces the remarkable demographic changes experienced by Jews around the globe and assesses the impact of those changes on Jewish communal and social structures, religious and cultural practices, and relations with non-Jews.

Gendering Modern German History
Gendering Modern German History

Author: Karen Hagemann

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1845454421

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To provide a critical overview in a comparative German-American perspective is the main aim of this volume, which brings together experts from both sides of the Atlantic. Through case studies, it demonstrates the extraordinary power of the gender perspective to challenge existing interpretations and rewrite mainstream arguments.

Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era
Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era

Author: Katherine Aaslestad

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-12-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9047415574

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This study examines North Germany during the transformative era of the French Revolution, Napoleonic occupation, and Wars of Liberation; it reveals international exploitation, military occupation, economic destruction of the city-state Hamburg as well as the republic’s liberation and post-Napoleonic autonomy.

Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands
Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-06-17

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9047429818

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Traditionally, the term boundary applies to the demarcation between a physical place and another physical place, most commonly associated with lines on a map As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, a boundary can also function in a more broadly conceptual manner. A boundary becomes not an “imaginary line” but a tool for thinking about how to separate any two elements, whether ideas, events, etc., into categories by which they become comprehensible and distinct. The scholar contributors seek not simply to discern the boundaries, but, and perhaps more importantly, to understand the process of delination, and its consequences. With its maverick history and grass-root political traditions, the Netherlands provides an auspicious setting to examine the historical function of boundaries both real and imagined.

Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World
Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-12-10

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9004375880

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This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of religious practice and experience throughout the early modern world. The contributions to this book, which deal with themes dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, tell of the intimate relationship between humans and the sacred within the walls of the home. The volume demonstrates that the home cannot be studied in isolation: the sixteen essays, that encompass religious history, the histories of art and architecture, material culture, literary history, and social and cultural history, instead point individually and collectively to the porosity of the home and its connectedness with other institutions and broader communities. Contributors: Dotan Arad, Kathleen Ashley, Martin Christ, Hildegard Diemberger, Marco Faini, Suzanna Ivanič, Debra Kaplan, Marion H. Katz, Soyeon Kim, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Borja Franco Llopis, Alessia Meneghin, Francisco J. Moreno Díaz del Campo, Cristina Osswald, Kathleen M. Ryor, Igor Sosa Mayor, Hanneke van Asperen, Torsten Wollina, and Jungyoon Yang.

Beyond Expulsion
Beyond Expulsion

Author: Debra Kaplan

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2011-07-26

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0804779058

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Beyond Expulsion is a history of Jewish-Christian interactions in early modern Strasbourg, a city from which the Jews had been expelled and banned from residence in the late fourteenth century. This study shows that the Jews who remained in the Alsatian countryside continued to maintain relationships with the city and its residents in the ensuing period. During most of the sixteenth century, Jews entered Strasbourg on a daily basis, where they participated in the city's markets, litigated in its courts, and shared their knowledge of Hebrew and Judaica with Protestant Reformers. By the end of the sixteenth century, Strasbourg became an increasingly orthodox Lutheran city, and city magistrates and religious leaders sought to curtail contact between Jews and Christians. This book unearths the active Jewish participation in early modern society, traces the impact of the Reformation on local Jews, discusses the meaning of tolerance, and describes the shifting boundaries that divided Jewish and Christian communities.

Realm Of Industry
Realm Of Industry

Author: Ellias Aghili Dehnavi

Publisher: tredition

Published: 2020-11-30

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 3347201922

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Germany held the record of the biggest global trade surplus worth of 310 billion dollars which made the country one of the biggest exporters in the world, and its goods and services exports was 1448.17 billion dollars in 2017. The service sector, industry, and agriculture hold 70, 29.1, and 0.9 percent of the total share of Germany's GDP, respectively. Exports of Germany encompasses 41% of its national output. Germany's top 10 exported good are vehicles, machinery, chemical products, electronic products, electric tools, medical products, transportation equipment, base metals, food products, rubber, and plastic. The German economy is the biggest production economy in Europe, and it is less likely to take effect from the financial stagnation. The country conducts applied research with real industrial value. The German economy is considered a bridge between the latest academic insights and product advancements and industry-oriented processes, producing a big deal of knowledge in its laboratories. In July 2017, the IMF issued another "good health status" for the economy of Germany, providing recommendations for maintaining this level in long run.

Jewish Masculinities
Jewish Masculinities

Author: Benjamin Maria Baader

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2012-07-18

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0253002133

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Stereotyped as delicate and feeble intellectuals, Jewish men in German-speaking lands in fact developed a rich and complex spectrum of male norms, models, and behaviors. Jewish Masculinities explores conceptions and experiences of masculinity among Jews in Germany from the 16th through the late 20th century as well as emigrants to North America, Palestine, and Israel. The volume examines the different worlds of students, businessmen, mohels, ritual slaughterers, rabbis, performers, and others, shedding new light on the challenge for Jewish men of balancing German citizenship and cultural affiliation with Jewish communal solidarity, religious practice, and identity.