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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Conzen, Kathleen Neils |
| Title, Analytic | German Jews and the German-Speaking Civic Culture of Nineteenth-Century America |
| Author, Monographic | Wiese, Christian and Cornelia Wilhelm |
| Title, Monographic | American Jewry : transcending the European experience? |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Date of Publication | 2013 |
| Location in Work | 105-124 |
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| Abstract | "A central concern within America's nineteenth-century German-language public arena . . . was the role of cultural difference withing democracy. To the extent that Jews defined and defended themselves in purely religious terms, this was a debate that they could avoid. German immigrants, whose quarrel with America was based on cultural difference, could not. Jews who chose, even if only for some of their leisure activities, to enter that German sphere in segmented fashion, also entered that debate. . . . For Jews like [Max] Cohnheim, who had fought for a free Germany [during the Revolutions of 1848/49], . . . the construction and maintenance of German community in America was a central task of [his] journals, with their advertising from German American businesses and associations. . . . The muted Jewish sensibility in Cohnheim's German public voice seems to exemplify the segmented character of the Jewish presence withing the German American public arena, reflecting the sharp distinction between the religious role as Jew and the public role as citizen. . . ." |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Call Number | Digital file (PDF) |
| MKI Terms | German Jews/ Newspapers, German American/ National characteristics -- Public opinion -- Jewish/ United States -- 19th century |