1st Edition
The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science
Introduction 1. Language, Culture, and the Representation of the Jews 2. Assimilation as Extinction: Race, Mixture, and Difference 3. From Assimilation to Difference 4. Objects, Definitions, and Assimilation 5. The Aesthetics of Jewish Assimilation: Form and Individuality 6. The "Jew": Object of Research and "Quilting Point". Conclusion
Biography
Amos Morris-Reich has been a research fellow at the Simon Dubnow Center, the University of Chicago, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He is currently the Polonsky Research Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
"For historians of Germany and of the sciences as well as of Jews in that culture, this book provides important new insights into the way highly educated German-speaking Jews reflected upon and responded creatively to their very specific historical situation, ca. 1870–1914." -- SHOFAR, Vol. 18. No. 2, 2010
