Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"David Meola's study breaks new ground in depicting how Jews in Baden used regional and national newspapers to contest Christian definitions of Judaism. By showcasing the confidence with which Jews engaged liberals to reorient viewpoints about Jewish civic identity, Meola underscores the importance of the public sphere as a testing ground for entry into civil society. Scholars of European and Jewish history will benefit from the study's sharp focus on the 1840s, a decade that witnessed intense debates about the extent and limits of Jewish integration into German society."—James M. Brophy, Francis H. Squire Professor, University of Delaware
"With his focus on the mainstream Jewish press (as opposed to the German-Jewish press or treatises and pamphlets with a more limited audience) Meola makes several important interventions in the history of the struggle for legal emancipation and the study of Jewish self-representation in and around the 1840s."—Elizabeth Loentz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Translation
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Development of Jewish Life and the German Newspaper during the Early Nineteenth Century
2. Jewish Emancipation in the Badenese and German Press
3. Jewish Religious Reform in the German and Badenese Press
4. The Fight for Jewish Admission to Constance in the Bodensee Press, 1846
Conclusion: Fighting for Inclusion in Vormärz German Society
Appendix A: Badenese Rabbinical Ordinance (1824)
Appendix B: Published Will and Testament of Salomon Heine
Notes
Bibliography
Index
