Document Type
Review
Publication Date
5-2012
Department 1
German
Abstract
The “Jewish question” (Judenfrage) has referred to pressing concerns about the political status and fate of European Jewry since roughly the 1770s. In German and Austrian lands, Jewish emancipation, acculturation, and secularization gave rise to a slippery understanding of Jewishness (Judentum) among both Jews and non-Jews. Who should be considered a Jew was determined according to increasingly antisemitic and so-called racial (rather than religious) specifications; many came to regard Jewishness as indelible. [excerpt]
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ISBN/ISSN
2164-8646
Version
Post-Print
Recommended Citation
Wallach, Kerry. "Jay Geller. The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011." In German Studies Review 35, no. 2 (2012): 393–395.
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