Bøger af Deborah Hertz

Explains why Jews did or did not convert to Protestantism. This book humanizes various stories, sets them in the context of Berlin's evolving society, and connects them to the broad sweep of European history.

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, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the German past.