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"--