In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933

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Acknowledgments Introduction by Michael Brenner and Derek J. Penslar 1. German Jews between Fulfillment and Disillusion: The Individual and the Community Shulamit Volkov 2. Gemeinschaft within Gemeinde: Religious Ferment in Weimar Liberal Judaism Michael A. Meyer 3. Visions of Gemeindeorthodoxie in Weimar Germany: The Approaches of Nehemiah Anton Nobel and Isak Unna David Ellenson 4. Turning Inward: Jewish Youth in Weimar Germany Michael Brenner 5. Between Deutschtum and Judentum: Ideological Controversies Inside the Centralverein deutscher Staatsburger judischen Glaubens (CV), 1919-1933 Avraham Barkai 6. oVerjudung des JudentumsO: Was there a Zionist Subculture in Western Germany during the Weimar Period? Jacob Borut 7. Written out of History: Bundists in Vienna and the Varieties of Jewish Experience in the Austrian First Republic Jack Jacobs 8. Jewish Ethnicity in a New Nation-State: The Crisis of Identity in the Austrian Republic Marsha L. Rozenblit 9. Gender, Identity, and Community: Jewish University Women in Germany and Austria Harriet Pass Freidenreich 10. The Crisis of the Jewish Family in Weimar Germany: Social Conditions and Cultural Representations Sharon Gillerman 11. oYouth in NeedO: Correctional Education (Fursorgeerziehung) and Family Breakdown in German-Jewish Families Claudia Prestel 12. Decline and Survival of Rurual Jewish Communities Steven M. Lowenstein Contributors Index