Geller, Jay Howard,

The Scholems : a story of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie from emancipation to destruction / Jay Howard Geller - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (x, 329 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) - University Press Pilot Project .



Origins : from Glogau to Berlin -- Berlin childhood around 1900 : growing up in the growing metropolis -- Things fall apart : the First World War -- Life in the time of revolutions : the early Weimar Republic -- The gold-plated twenties and beyond : promise, prosperity, and depression in interwar Germany -- In the promised land : a new home in Jerusalem -- In the maelstrom : Jewish life in Nazi Germany -- Cresting of the fifth wave : Gershom Scholem's Palestine in the 1930s -- Afterlives : Sydney and Jerusalem

"A collective biography of the family of the Jewish scholar Gershom Scholem and a social history of the Jewish middle class in Germany from the era of emancipation through the Holocaust"--



9781501731570

2018033456


Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982.
Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982 --Family.


Jewish scholars--Germany--Biography.
Jews--Germany--Biography.
Jews--History--Germany--20th century.
Middle class--History--Germany--20th century.


Electronic Books.

BM755 / .S365 2019