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written for the reader who has no prior knowledge of Judaism or German history—not an academic treatise or thesis.
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based on thousands of primary documents—incorporates many quotations.
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includes over 75 illustrations, maps, family trees, and tables—many not previously published.
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provides information for genealogists—a structure to learn about Jews in German-speaking lands.—includes a nuts and bolts outline for non-German speaking researchers.
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serves as a useful reference for school and synagogue libraries—the index details historical events, customs, people, and places.
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priced to be a perfect gift.—or a donation to a library, school, or synagogue.
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presents another viewpoint for the understanding the times leading up to the Holocaust and why the German Jews stayed in Germany after Hitler’s rise to power.
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details from primary documents the anti-Jewish feelings and actions perpetrated on the south German rural Jews—includes the 1819 Hep! Hep! riots, the 1848 Baisingen riots, and the 1873 Stuttgart riots.
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offers a historical perspective of the differences between German Jews and Eastern European Jews.
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counters the common claim that the German Jews were not religious.
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explains the reasons behind the Jewish emigration of the mid-19th century—economics, not anti-Semitism.
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follows the rural Jews as early immigrants to the American Midwest.—includes the unusual path taken by the Berlitz School of Languages’ founder.
