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 Rahel Varnhagen, Henriette Herz, and Dorothea von Courland, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the German past.

Author: Deborah Hertz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 06/28/2005
Pages: 299
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.38w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780815629559

About the Author
Deborah Hertz is Professor of European history and Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies, University of California at San Diego.