30 Facts About German Jewish

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German Jewish employed Jews for diplomatic purposes, sending, for instance, a Jew as interpreter and guide with his embassy to Harun al-Rashid.

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Status of the German Jewish Jews remained unchanged under Charlemagne's successor, Louis the Pious.

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3.

German Jewish is described in Jewish historiography as a model of wisdom, humility, and piety, and became known to succeeding generations as the "Light of the Exile".

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4.

German Jewish first stimulated the German Jews to study the treasures of their religious literature.

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German Jewish people found a certain degree of protection with the Holy Roman Emperor, who claimed the right of possession and protection of all the Jews of the empire.

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However, as soon as German Jewish people acquired some property, they were again plundered and driven away.

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7.

German Jewish made compacts with many cities, estates, and princes whereby he annulled all outstanding debts to the Jews in return for a certain sum paid to him.

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8.

German Jewish was the first to speak out against the use of excommunication as a religious threat.

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9.

German Jewish said that Jews must live in civil society, but only in a way that their right to observe religious laws is granted, while recognizing the needs for respect, and multiplicity of religions.

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10.

German Jewish campaigned for emancipation and instructed Jews to form bonds with the gentile governments, attempting to improve the relationship between Jews and Christians while arguing for tolerance and humanity.

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11.

German Jewish became the symbol of the Jewish Enlightenment, the Haskalah.

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12.

German Jewish emancipation did not eliminate all forms of discrimination against Jews, who often remained barred from holding official state positions.

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German Jewish's interests turned towards promoting the educational interests of the Enlightenment with other Jews.

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German Jewish valued reason and felt that anyone could arrive logically at religious truths while arguing that what makes Judaism unique is its divine revelation of a code of law.

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Part of the evolution of the German Jewish community was the cultivation of German Jewish literature and associations created with teachers, rabbis, and leaders of congregations.

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German Jewish women were contradicting their view points in the sense that they were modernizing, but they tried to keep some traditions alive.

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German Jewish mothers were shifting the way they raised their children in ways such as moving their families out of Jewish neighborhoods, thus changing who Jewish children grew up around and conversed with, all in all shifting the dynamic of the then close-knit Jewish community.

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The German Jewish people have adapted to religious beliefs and practices to the meet the needs of the German Jewish people throughout the generation.

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19.

German Jewish'storian Fritz Stern concludes that by 1900, what had emerged was a Jewish-German symbiosis, where German Jews had merged elements of German and Jewish culture into a unique new one.

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20.

German Jewish women played a key role in keeping the German Jewish communities in tune with the changing society that was evoked by the Jews being emancipated.

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21.

German Jewish women were the catalyst of modernization within the German Jewish community.

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22.

Jewish women attempted to create an exterior presence of German while maintaining the Jewish lifestyle inside their homes.

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23.

German Jews often broke ties with Jews of other countries; the Alliance Israelite Universelle, a French organisation that was dedicated to protecting Jewish rights, saw a German Jewish member quit once the war started, declaring that he could not, as a German, belong to a society that was under French leadership.

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However, German Jewish Jews did not always feel a personal kinship with Russian Jews.

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25.

For many Jews, the fact the census was carried out at all caused a sense of betrayal, as German Jews had taken part in the violence, food shortages, nationalist sentiment and misery of attrition alongside their fellow Germans, however most German-Jewish soldiers carried on dutifully to the bitter end.

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The Jewish middle class suffered increasing economic deprivation, and by 1930 a quarter of the German Jewish community had to be supported through community welfare programs.

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Germany's Jewish community was highly urbanized, with 80 percent living in cities.

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28.

The majority of German Jews were only nominally religious and they saw their Jewish identity as only one of several identities; they opted for bourgeois liberalism and assimilation into all phases of German culture.

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Partly owing to the deep similarities between Yiddish and German, Jewish studies have become a popular academic study, and many German universities have departments or institutes of Jewish studies, culture, or history.

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30.

Additionally, a group of German Jewish children was taunted by unidentified young people on the basis of their religion.

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