Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin » (New Edition)

Late 18th century salon culture broke all the rules of rigid German society. Emphasizing the role of Jewish women intellectuals who hosted salons and intermarriage patterns, Hertz (European history, modern Jewish studies, U. of California, San Diego) examines Jewish-Gentile relations in this Enlightenment institution. She also addresses new sources and issues that have arisen since the 1988 hardback edition was issued by Yale U. The study includes portraits of, and data on, salon participants and converts. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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An enlivening study of the era. . . . Its special appeal is to cover a neglected area of women's emancipation that has been both regretted and admired, since the role the salonieres carved out for themselves was so precarious and transitory.