book: Brothers And Strangers: East-European Jew In German And German Jewish

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	• Brothers And Strangers: East-European Jew In German And German Jewish Steven E. Aschheim University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 - 368 pages view larger image
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Brothers and Strangers traces the history of German Jewish attitudes, policies, and stereotypical images toward Eastern European Jews, demonstrating the ways in which the historic rupture between Eastern and Western Jewry developed as a function of modernism and its imperatives. By the 1880s, most German Jews had inherited and used such negative images to symbolize rejection of their own ghetto past and to emphasize the contrast between modern "enlightened" Jewry and its "half-Asian" counterpart.