The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait by Ruth Gay National Jewish Book Award Winner the Middle East and Australia

the Middle East and Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries not only transformed the demographic and cultural centers of world Jewry

spanning from the United States to Europe and British-ruled Palestine

The very concept of the nation-state

Jewish liturgy

In this delightful book

The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait by Ruth Gay National Jewish Book Award Winner the Middle East and AustraliaThis unique book provides a panoramic overview of a now extinct culture: the 1500 year history of the Jews in Germany. Through texts, pictures, and contemporary accounts, it follows the German Jews from their first settlements on the Rhine in the fourth century to the destruction of the community in World War II. Using both voices and images of the past, the book reveals how the German Jews looked, how they lived, what they thought about, and what