ISBN: 9780300051551 - The Jews of Germany – a Historical Portrait (35 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. This unique book provides a panoramic overview of a now extinct culture: the 1500-year history of the Jews in Germany. Through texts, pictures, and contemporary accounts, it follows the German Jews from their first settlements on the Rhine in the fourth century to the destruction of the community in World War I. Using both voices and images of the past, the book reveals how the German Jews looked, how they lived, what they thought about, and what others thought of them. Ruth Gay's text, interwoven with passages from memoirs, letters, newspapers, and many other contemporary sources, shows how the German Jews organized their communities, created a new language (Yiddish), and built their special culture-all this under circumstances sometimes friendly, but often murderously hostile. The book explores the internal debates that agitated the community from medieval to modern times and analyzes how German Jewry emerged into the modern world. The earliest document in the book is a fourth-century decree by the Roman emperor Constantine permitting Jews to hold office in Cologne. Among the last are poignant letters from Betty Scholem in Berlin, writing during the Nazi years to her son Gershom in Palestine. In between are accounts of a ninth-century Jewish merchant appointed by Charlemagne to a diplomatic mission to Baghdad, a thirteenth-century Jewish minnesinger, a seventeenth-century pogrom in Frankfurt in which gentiles helped to save their Jewish neighbors, and the nineteenth-century innovation of department stores, palaces of consumerism. The book tells a story-moving, terrifying, and exhilarating-that must be remembered.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. This unique book provides a panoramic overview of a now extinct culture: the 1500-year history of the Jews in Germany. Through texts, pictures, and contemporary accounts, it follows the German Jews from their first settlements on the Rhine in the fourth century to the destruction of the community in World War I. Using both voices and images of the past, the book reveals how the German Jews looked, how they lived, what they thought about, and what others thought of them. Ruth Gay's text, interwoven with passages from memoirs, letters, newspapers, and many other contemporary sources, shows how the German Jews organized their communities, created a new language (Yiddish), and built their special culture-all this under circumstances sometimes friendly, but often murderously hostile. The book explores the internal debates that agitated the community from medieval to modern times and analyzes how German Jewry emerged into the modern world. The earliest document in the book is a fourth-century decree by the Roman emperor Constantine permitting Jews to hold office in Cologne. Among the last are poignant letters from Betty Scholem in Berlin, writing during the Nazi years to her son Gershom in Palestine. In between are accounts of a ninth-century Jewish merchant appointed by Charlemagne to a diplomatic mission to Baghdad, a thirteenth-century Jewish minnesinger, a seventeenth-century pogrom in Frankfurt in which gentiles helped to save their Jewish neighbors, and the nineteenth-century innovation of department stores, palaces of consumerism. The book tells a story-moving, terrifying, and exhilarating-that must be remembered.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Used - Very Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good / with Protective Cover. This copy has very little corner bumping or edge wear. Small ownership markings center of fep, otherwise clean and tight in it's binding. Due to the size of the book, it will require additional shipping outside the United States. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Various (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST edition, first printing. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Gift inscription written on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Yale University Press 1992 4to. 297 pages. beige cloth boards. binding tight. dust jacket in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback in very good plus condition with fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Exlibrary with usual library markings.; 297 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Good. Boards are clean. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some marks.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Includes dust jacket. Ex owner markings on prelim pages. Dust jacket has minor wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. First Edition. 1st printing (complete number line). Clean and tight. No markings. Fast shipping from NYC.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Yale University Press hardcover in dust jacket, 1992-first edition/1st printing; unused and carefully stored; No marks/tears or other defects; (Fine/Fine). We will add a custom fitted archival quality mylar cover, bubble wrap the book and ship it in a New BOX- Not a plastic bag like the zombie sellers.…

hardcover. Condition: Used; Good.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Introduction by Peter Gay. xiii, 297pp. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated in both color and black and white. Wraps curling and with a bit of edgewear, very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Yale University Press, 1992. Folio. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.

Rústica. Condition: Aceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Aceptable. 1. Yale University Press, 1992. Condición: Bien. Falta sobrecubierta. LIBRO.

Hb. Large format, fully illustrated. Sl. Scuffed Dustjacket. Very Good.