Germans, Jews, and Antisemites

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History of the Jews in modern Germany is usually told as the tale of outstanding individuals, completely immersed in German society and disproportionately contributing to its culture. This book focuses on the story of 'ordinary' German Jews, concerned not merely with being like other Germans, i.e. 'assimilated', but simply with upward social climbing and achievements. They did not seek to abandon Judaism in entering German society but to reformulate and reinvent it to fit their new standing. Despite continuous antisemitism, Germany seemed to have accepted them on these terms.

Shulamit Volkov is the Konrad Adenauer Chair for Comparative European History and Professor of Modern European History at Tel Aviv University. She was previously a fellow at St Anthony's College, Oxford, the Wissenschaftskolleg, and the Historisches Kolleg. Volkov is the author of The Origins of Popular Antimodernism in Germany: The Urban Master Artisans, 1873¿1896 (1978) and the editor of Deutsche Juden und die Moderne (1994) and Being Different: Minorities, Aliens, and Outsiders in History (2000).