| Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin Contributor(s): Hertz, Deborah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815629559 ISBN-13: 9780815629559 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day. Princes, nobles, upwardly mobile writers, actors, and beautiful Jewish women flocked to the salons of Rahel Varnhagen, Henriette Herz, and Dorothea von Courland, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the Germen past. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - History | Europe - Germany - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 943.155 |
| LCCN: 2005009399 |
| Series: Modern Jewish History |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.38" W x 9.48" (1.11 lbs) 326 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day. Princes, nobles, upwardly mobile writers, actors, and beautiful Jewish women flocked to the salons of Rahel Varnhagen, Henriette Herz, and Dorothea von Courland, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the German past. |