Publications

Books

How Jews Became Germans. The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, November 2007).

Reviews of How Jews Became Germans

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Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988). The translated hardback edition of the book is Die jüdische Salons im alten Berlin (Frankfurt/M.: Anton Hain, l991.) A paperback edition was published by the Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag (Munich, 1995). The Philo Verlag has published three editions of the German paperback since 1998 and the German hardback remains in print. A total of 10,000 copies of the book have been sold in Germany. A paperback edition in English appeared with Syracuse University Press in 2005, with a Preface summarizing new research in the field.

Briefe an eine Freundin: Rahel Varnhagen an Rebecca Friedländer Critical Edition, with an Introduction. (Cologne: Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 1988).

NEW BOOK IN PROGRESS

Journeys to Emancipation: Jewish Women in Radical Politics, 1869---1914. Covers women in anarchist, terrorist, socialist, Yiddishist, feminist and Zionist movements from New York City to Vilna to Odessa to the kibbutzim in Palestine.

ARTICLES

“Public Leisure and the Rise of the Salons,” in Early Modern Europe: Issues and Interpretations, edited by James Collins and Karen Taylor (Blackwell Publishing, London, 2005). This article is reprinted from Chapter Six of my Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin.

“Männlichkeit und Melancholie in Berlin der Biedermeierzeit,” in Deutsche-Jüdische Geschichte als Geschlectergeschichte, edited by Stephanie Schüler-Springorum (Hamburg 2006).

“Dueling for Emancipation: Jewish Masculinity in the Era of Napoleon,” in Jüdische Welten: Juden in Deutschland vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Festschrift for Monika Richarz, edited by Marion Kaplan and Beate Meyer (Hamburg: Wallstein Verlag, 2005), 69-85.

“Amalie Beer als Schirmherrin bürgerlicher Kultur und religiöser Reform,” Der Differenz auf der Spur. Frauen und Gender in Aschkenas, a volume in the series Minima Judaica, edited by Christiane Müller and Andrea Schatz, (Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2004)

“Die Sexualpolitik der Jüdischen Politik im Leben Ludwig Börnes ,” in a volume edited by Frank Stern, Ludwig Börne: Deutscher Schriftsteller, Jude, Demokrat, (Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 2003).

“The Troubling Dialectic Between Reform and Conversion in Berlin, 1815-45,” in the Schriftenreihe of the Leo Baeck Institute, entitled Towards Normality: Patterns of Assimilation and Acculturation of German-Speaking Jews, edited by Rainer Liedtke and David Rechter (J.C.B. Mohr, 2002).

“The Message of the Roosters,” in a volume entitled Oekonomische Potenz und Interkulturalitaet. Bedeutung und Wandlungen der mitteleuropaeischen Hofjudenschaft auf dem Weg in die Moderne, edited by Rotraud Ries and Friedrich Battenberg (2003).

“Jüdische Mäzene und Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens im Berlin des Biedermeier,” in the Wiener Jahrbuch für jüdische Geschichte, Kultur, und Museumswesen , Volume 5 (2000-2001), 53-68.

“The Lives, Loves and Novels of the Converted Lewald Cousins from Königsberg,” in The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 46 (2001), 95-112 and “Response to Dagmar Herzog,” 159-163.

“Theilhaber’s ‘Racial Suicide’ or Scholem’s ‘Myth of Symbiosis:’ Interpreting Conversion Rates in Nineteenth-Century Berlin,” in The Margins of Jewish History, edited by Marc Raphael (Williamsburg, Virginia: 2001). A revised version of this article, with the title “Racial Suicide, Or Not? Interpreting Conversion Rates in Nineteenth-Century Berlin,” has been published in a festschrift for Professor Julius Schoeps edited by Willi Jasper, Preußens Himmel breitet seine Stern. Deutsch-Jüdische Geschichte, Politik und Kultur im 19 und 20 Jahrhundert (Berlin, 2002).

“The Genealogy Bureaucracy in the Third Reich,” in Jewish History 11 (Fall, 1997), 53-78.

“Towards a Definition of Mass Conversion: Comments on Klausner’s Discussion of the Conversion of American Jews,” Contemporary Jewry 18 (1997).

"The Despised Queen of Berlin Jewry, Or, the Life and Times of Esther Liebmann," in From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power 1600-1800, edited by Vivian Mann and Richard Cohen (Munich and New York: Prestel Verlag, 1996).

"Madame de Stael pays a visit to the Berlin salons of the lucky Jewish dilettantes," in Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096--1996 edited by Jack Zipes and Sander Gilman (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997). (This article is a completely revised and shortened version of Chapter Six of my Jewish High Society.)

"Why Did the Christian Gentleman Assault the juedische Elegant? Four Conversion Stories from Berlin 1816--1825," in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 40 (1995).

"Leaving Judaism for a Man: Female Conversion and Intermarriage in Germany, 1812--1819," in Zur Geschichte der juedischen Frau in Deutschland, edited by Julius Carlebach (Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 1993).

"Jewish Women in Europe, 1750--1932: A Bibliographic Guide," co-authored with Jane Arnold and Julie Rubin, in Jewish History 7 (1993).

"Women at the Edge of Judaism: Female Converts in Germany, 1600--1750," in Jewish Assimilation, Acculturation and Accomodation edited by Menachem Mor (Landam, Maryland: University Press of America, 1991).

"Love, Work and Jewishness in the Life of Fanny Lewald," in From East to West: Jews in a Changing Europe, 1750-1870 edited by Frances Malino and David Sorkin (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991). The article was reprinted in a new edition with the title Profiles in Diversity 1750—1870: Jews in a Changing Europe (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997).

"Seductive Conversion in Berlin, 1770-1809," in Todd Endelman, ed., Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1987).

"Inside Assimilation: Rebecca Friedlaender's Rahel Varnhagen," in German Women in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Centuries, M.J. Maynes and R.E. Joeres, eds. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986).

"Hannah Arendt's Rahel Varnhagen," in German Women in the Nineteenth Century, John Fout, ed. (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1984).

"Intermarriage in the Berlin Salons," Central European History 16 (December, 1984). "Mischehen in den Berliner Salons," a translation of this article, appeared in the Bulletin des Leo Baeck Instituts 79 (1988). A revised version of the article appeared as "Emancipation Through Intermarriage. Jewish Women in Old Berlin," in Judith Baskin, ed., Jewish Women: Historical Essays (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991). A reprint edition of the volume appeared in 1998, and the essay was thoroughly revised for that new edition.

"Signs of Oppression: Pre-Nazi Germany," in Holocaust Education, Marcia Littell, ed. (New York: Edwin Mellon Press, 1985).

"The Varnhagen Collection is in Krakow," American Archivist 44 (Summer, 1981), 223-228.

"Salonières and Literary Women in Late Eighteenth-Century Berlin, New German Critique 14 (Spring, 1978), 97-108.

COMMENTS IN PUBLISHED CONFERENCE VOLUMES

"Contacts and Relations in the Pre-Emancipation Period----A Comment," in In and Out of the Ghetto. Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany edited by R. Po-chia Hsia and Hartmut Lehmann (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, l995).

Response to "Feminist Scholarship and Germanistik," in German Studies in the USA (DAAD Conference Proceedings, Arizona State University, 1989).

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

Articles on “Dorothea Mendelssohn Schlegel,” “Rahel Levin Varnhagen,” in the Second Edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia, edited by Fred Skolnik, 22 volumes, (MacMillan press, 2006).

Article on Fanny Bacher Hertz, in Das jüdische Hamburg: Ein Nachschlagewerk (Hamburg, 2006)

“Dorothea Mendelssohn Schlegel,” in Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing Ltd., 2006).

"Jewish Salon Women," in the Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990). Revised version of the article to be submitted for the new edition of the volume in June 2003.

“Konversion in Europa” Handbuch zur Geschichte der Juden in Europa, edited by Julius H. Schoeps, Elke-Vera Kotowski and Hiltrud Wallenborn (Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2001), 322-335.

“Salons in Germany,” for The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment edited by Alan Charles Kors (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

PUBLISHED SYLLABI

"The History of Jewish Women in Europe, 1700--1932," in Gender and Jewish Studies: A Curriculum Guide, edited by Judith Baskin and Shelly Tenenbaum (New York: Biblio Press, 1994).

PUBLISHED INTERVIEWS

Sarah Strasser, "Jewish Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: An Interview with Deborah Hertz," in Mosaic: Review of Jewish Thought and Culture (Fall, 1989).

“Focus on Fulbright Alumni,” a summary of my recent research , Fulbright Israel Review (Autumn, 2001), 10-11.

Interview with WBAI Radio, Beyond the Pale, on “High Culture Motherhood and the Birth of Reform Judaism,” April 1999.

Interview on “Jewish Culture in Twentieth-Century Central Europe,” in a television program and DVD by Jason Starr, What the Universe Tells Me: Unraveling the Mysteries of Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony, March 2000.

ARTICLES IN EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Commentary on the “Album Amicorum of Rebecca Itzig Ephraim,” for the exhibition Major Intersections: Treasures from the Roots and routes of Jewish Life at the Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History, New York City, Summer 2000.

PUBLICATIONS ABOUT MY WORK

Heinz Karl Krueger, "Die Rebellion der Töchter," (based on the translated edition of my Jewish High Society) in Der Spiegel (March 25, 1991).

A translation of the Der Spiegel article appeared in the weekly edition of the Israeli newspaper Ha-Aretz (Volume 72/21796; March 31--April 4, 1991).