Leo Baeck Institute Year Book XL 1995. Resistance and Liberation, Assimilation and Self-Perception, Judaica.

London: Published for the Institute by Secker & Warburg, 1995. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket, frontispiece photo, xii, 480 pp., b/w illustrations, bibliography, list of contributors, index. Very Good. Item #72474
ISBN: 0436202573

Preface by Grenville and Julius Carlebach. Articles are "'Resistance of German and Austrian Jews to the Nazi Regime, 1933-1945," Arnold Paucker, "German- and Austrian-Jewish Volunteers in Britain's Armed Forces, 1939-1945," John P. Fox, "The Jewish Exiles in the Service of US Intelligence. The Post-War Years," Guy Stern, "Converts and their Narratives in Early Modern Germany. The Case of Friedrich Albrecht Christiani," Elisheva Carlebach, "Why Did the Christian Gentlemen Assault the 'Jüdischer Elegant'? Four Conversion Stories from Berlin, 1816-1825," Deborah Hertz, "The Conversionary Impulse in Fin de Siecle Germany," Alan Levenson, "Leaving the Jewish Fold in Germany. Comments on the Ppaers of Elisheva Carlebach, Deborah Herz and Alan Levenson." Todd M. Endelman, "Mendelssohn and 'Mendelssohn's Disciples'. A Re-Examination," Shmuel Feiner, "Religious Reforms and Secular Trends in German-Jewish Life. An Agenda for Research," David Sorkin, "The Rise of the Religious Right and the Recasting of the 'Jewish Question'. Baden in the 1840s," Dagmar Herzog, "The Persecution of the Heine Family in Germany, 1933-1939," Edith Raim, "Lambeth Palace, the Church of England and the Jews og Germany and Austria in 1938," Andrew Chandler, "A Disputed Precedent. The Prague Organ in Nineteenth-Century Central-European Legal Literature and Polemics," David Ellenson, "Jewish Ceremonial Silver from Germany in the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam," Edward Van Voolen, Irene Faber & Annette Weber.

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