Hochjuden
Peter Gay, 5 January 1989
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
by Deborah Hertz.
Yale, 299 pp., £22.50, June 1988,0 300 03775 9 Show More
by Deborah Hertz.
Yale, 299 pp., £22.50, June 1988,
“... rather than in France, where Jews had been politically emancipated, ‘specifically in Berlin,’ Hertz writes, ‘that a Jewish community achieved the social glory represented by entertaining and even marrying the cream of gentile society. Nor was it only the Berlin Jewish women’s role in promoting Jewish social emancipation that captivated observers of ... ”