Jewish high society in Old Regime Berlin /

During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day. Princes, nobles, upwardly mobile writers, actors, and beautiful Jewish women flocked to the salons of Rahe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hertz, Deborah Sadie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1988.
Subjects:
Herz, Henriette > 1764-1847
Varnhagen, Rahel > 1771-1833
1700-1799
Jews > Germany > Berlin > Intellectual life.
Salons > Germany > Berlin > History > 18th century.
Jewish women > Germany > Berlin > History > 18th century.
Jews > Germany > Berlin > History > 18th century.
Upper class women > Germany > Berlin > History.
Juifs > Allemagne > Berlin > Vie intellectuelle.
Salons littéraires > Allemagne > Berlin > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Juives > Allemagne > Berlin > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Juifs > Allemagne > Berlin > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Femmes de la classe supérieure > Allemagne > Berlin > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
Ethnic relations.
Jewish women.
Jews.
Jews > Intellectual life.
Salons.
Upper class women.
Gesellschaft
Intellektueller
Juden
Literarischer Salon
Salon
Joden.
Hogere klassen.
Elite
Berlin
Berlin (Germany) > Ethnic relations.
Germany > Berlin.
Juden.
Courland, Dorothea von.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Figures
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • ONE. Introduction: Why Salons?
  • TWO. Social Structure
  • THREE. The Male Intelligentsia
  • FOUR. Public Leisure and the Rise of Salons
  • FIVE. Salon Men
  • SIX. Salon Women
  • SEVEN. Seductive Conversion and Romantic Intermarriage
  • EIGHT. The Decline of Salons
  • Bibliographic Note
  • Index

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