Publications

Books

How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin

  • English edition
  • Hardcover: November 2007 (Yale University Press)
  • Paperback: January 2009 (Yale University Press)

Wie Juden Deutsch Wurden: Die Welt jüdischer Konvertiten vom 17. bis zum 19. Jahrhudert

  • German edition
  • Translated by Thomas Bertrand
  • Paperback: August 2010 (Campus Verlag)

Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin

  • English edition
  • Hardcover: 1988 (Yale University Press)
  • Paperback: 2005 (Syracuse University Press), with preface summarizing new research in the field

Die jüdische Salons im alten Berlin​

  • German edition
  • Hardcover: 1991 (Anton Hain)
  • Paperback: 2018 (Europäische Verlagsanstalt), 1988 (Philo Verlag), 1995 (Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag)
  • A total of 10,000 copies of the book have been sold in Germany.

Recently Published Articles

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German Translation

“Warum Rahel Levin Clemens Brentanos Freundschaft suchte: Seine Satiren und ihr Schmerzenschrei” in Juedische und christliche Intellektuelle in Berlin um 1800, edited by Cord-Freidrich Berghahn, Avi Lifschitz und Conrad Wiedemann (Hannover, Germany: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2021)

“Henriette Herz as Jew, Henriette Herz as Christian: Relationships, Conversion, Antisemitism” in Die Kommunikations-, Wissens- und Handlungsraeume der Henriette Herz (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2017)

“Manya Shochat and Her Traveling Guns: Jewish Radical Women from Pogrom Self-Defense to the First Kibbutzim” in Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender, edited by Jack Jacobs (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2017)

“Love, Money and Career in the Life of Rosa Luxemburg” in Three-Way Street: German Jews and the Transnational, edited by Jay Howard Geller and Leslie Morris (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016)

“Dangerous Politics, Dangerous Liaisons: Love and Terror Among Jewish Women Radicals in Czarist Russia,” in Histoire, Economie et Société (Volume 33, Number 4, 2014).

“The Red Countess Helene von Racowitza: From the Edict of Emancipation in 1812 to Suicide in 1912,” in Irene Diekmann, ed., Das Emanzipationsekikt von 1812 in Preuβen, Europäischjüdische Studien, Beitrag 15 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), the proceedings of a conference on the 200th Anniversary of the Edict of Emancipation sponsored by the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum at the University of Potsdam.

Publications about Deborah's Work

Noam Lead, “Behind the Lectern: Making History Present” in UCSD Guardian (April 18, 2016).