Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 1979

The transformation of German Jewry 1979. An annual collection of Essays on the history and activity of Jews in Germany during the past century. Contents include:Problems of Social and Economic History - Jewish Resistance to Nazism - From the Ghetto to European Culture - Emancipation of Jews and Women - Battles for Religious Reform - Language Questions and Integration - The Persistance of Yiddish in Germany - The Autobiography of a Jerwish Printer from Poznan - Figures of the Financial and Culutral Elite - Palestine Policies of the Governments of Imperial and Weimar Germany - The Jewish National Movement in Vienna and Breslau.