- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- English Glossary
- Introduction
- Part I On the Threshold of Modernity: 1618–1780
- 1 The Environment of Jewish Life
- 2 Family Life
- 3 Childhood and Education
- 4 Economic Life
- 5 Religious and Communal Life
- 6 Social Relations
- Part II The Beginning of Integration: 1780–1870
- 7 Jewish Residential Patterns
- 8 Family Life
- 9 Education
- 10 Economic Life
- 11 Religious Practice and Mentality
- 12 German Jews and Their Social Relationships
- Part III As Germans and as Jews in Imperial Germany
- 13 Surroundings
- 14 Family
- 15 Education
- 16 Work
- 17 Religious Practices, Mentalities, and Community
- 18 Social Life
- Part IV From Everyday Life to a State of Emergency: Jews in Weimar and Nazi Germany
- 19 Housing and Housekeeping
- 20 Family Life
- 21 Education and Vocational Training
- 22 Career and Employment
- 23 Religious Practice in the Synagogue and at Home
- 24 Leisure Time and Social Life
- 25 Constricting and Extinguishing Jewish Life
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Journals and Multivolume Works
- Index
German Jews and Their Social Relationships
German Jews and Their Social Relationships
- Chapter:
- (p.159) 12 German Jews and Their Social Relationships
- Source:
- Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945
- Author(s):
Steven M. Lowenstein
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter shows that Jewish social life in the 19th century slowly became more sophisticated and less exclusive. Numerous German Jews acquired manners appropriate to polite gentile society and began attending cultural events such as concerts and the theater. Though most Jews continued to socialize mainly with coreligionists, mixed Christian-Jewish formal and informal circles became more common. Jews of the higher classes were admitted to general bourgeois associations, and Jews participated in slowly growing numbers in local government and national politics. Violence against Jews became less common. In the liberal era of the 1850s and 1860s, barriers to Jewish mixing with non-Jews were probably lower than ever before in German history, though separate social circles were still quite noticeable.
Keywords: German Jews, socializing, Jewish communities, leisure activities, non-Jews
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- English Glossary
- Introduction
- Part I On the Threshold of Modernity: 1618–1780
- 1 The Environment of Jewish Life
- 2 Family Life
- 3 Childhood and Education
- 4 Economic Life
- 5 Religious and Communal Life
- 6 Social Relations
- Part II The Beginning of Integration: 1780–1870
- 7 Jewish Residential Patterns
- 8 Family Life
- 9 Education
- 10 Economic Life
- 11 Religious Practice and Mentality
- 12 German Jews and Their Social Relationships
- Part III As Germans and as Jews in Imperial Germany
- 13 Surroundings
- 14 Family
- 15 Education
- 16 Work
- 17 Religious Practices, Mentalities, and Community
- 18 Social Life
- Part IV From Everyday Life to a State of Emergency: Jews in Weimar and Nazi Germany
- 19 Housing and Housekeeping
- 20 Family Life
- 21 Education and Vocational Training
- 22 Career and Employment
- 23 Religious Practice in the Synagogue and at Home
- 24 Leisure Time and Social Life
- 25 Constricting and Extinguishing Jewish Life
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Journals and Multivolume Works
- Index
