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Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin.


Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin

Deborah Hertz Deborah Hertz, born February 9, 1949, is the Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her writing includes Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.  

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European history professor Deborah Hertz presents Jewish High Society In Old Regime Berlin, a definitive examination of upper-class Jews Jews [from Judah], traditionally, descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, whose tribe, with that of his half brother Benjamin, made up the kingdom of Judah; historically, members of the worldwide community of adherents to Judaism.  in Berlin during the latter half of the 1700's and the first half of the 1800's. Focusing especially upon the salons and those who attended them, Jewish High Society In Old Regime Berlin draws upon statistics, anecdotes, historical references and biographies, and is illustrates with occasional black-and-white diagrams or photographs. Evenhandedly e·ven·hand·ed  
adj.
Showing no partiality; fair.



even·hand
 examining the lives of both men and women, Jewish High Society In Old Regime Berlin is smoothly written and highly readable to historians and lay people alike.
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