German-Jewish Identities in America - Hardcover

Christof Mauch; Joseph Salmons

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0924119071 ISBN 13: 9780924119071

Publisher: Max Kade Institute, 2003

Synopsis

Changing political, social, and cultural circumstances have led German Jews in America to take on many different identities. These essays examine such varied topics as the relationship between German and Eastern European Jews in America, the development of the B’nai Brith, nineteenth-century Jewish community-building in Chicago, the role of German Jews in the building of modern American show business, and the correlation between date of emigration and language loss among Jews fleeing to America from Nazi Germany. Contributors include historians, theater and literature professors, a linguist, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Distributed for the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies

About the Author:

Christof Mauch is director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., and author of several books, including American Intelligence and the German Resistance to Hitler. Joseph Salmons is professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

About this edition

• Publisher: Max Kade Institute
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0924119071
• ISBN 13: 9780924119071
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172