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The German-Jewish Economic Elite, 1820-1935: A Socio-Cultural Profile.
ONE OF THE central issues in modern Jewish history is the degree to which Jews have "assimilated," that is, abandoned the world of the traditional Jewish community in order to become integrated members of Western culture and society. In this excellent, well-documented, and extremely interesting book, the eminent British historian, Werner Mosse, has explored the limits of integration into German society of the very richest Jews in Germany, a group which should have had the best chance of all for full integration.
Mosse uses as the foil for his discussion the position taken by the Israeli scholar, Gershom Scholem, in a very interesting essay, "On the Social Psychology ...
- NIXON WANTED TAX AUDITS OF WEALTHY JEWS.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) December 7, 1996 700+ words
President Richard Nixon pushed for IRS tax audits of wealthy Jewish contributors to his Democratic rivals, demanding of a top aide, ``What about the rich Jews? . . . Go after 'em like a son of a bitch newly released White House tapes show. ``You know, the big Jewish contributors to the Democrats.
- Savoring the sins of the fathers.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Grenier, Richard January 31, 1997 700+ words
...Goldhagen's triumphal tour of Germany, during which mobs of young...of Western art once owned by wealthy Jews are now hanging in the Louvre...The standing of present-day Germany is rather high these days...Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germany and the Holocaust" has sold...
- Hitler wanted a career in art but had to settle for barbarism.(BOOKS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times February 16, 2003 700+ words
...are numbered. Yet he still finds time to daydream about the Germany he hoped to create, which was, according to Mr. Spotts...collections - paintings, sculptures taken from the homes of wealthy Jews and from the great galleries of France, the Netherlands and...
- The Five Percent Solution.
- Magazine article from: On Wall Street Walker, Lewis J. August 1, 2000 700+ words
...could be discriminatory; a 25 percent estate tax levied on wealthy Jews was common. Charles Adams traces modem estate taxation to...in the 1300s, death taxes were common throughout France, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal by the 17th century. The United...
- The synagogue at Liptovsky Mikulas: Slovakia's ever-present past.
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Goldin, Milton July 14, 1995 700+ words
...opportunities to do so. I found this hard to believe. True, some wealthy Jews, who paid very large sums to Tiso and other fascists, had...never amounted to more than a loathsome caricature of Nazi Germany. It considered Hungary the main enemy and concentrated on...
- Letter from Jerusalem
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Rochelle Furstenberg January 2, 1994 700+ words
...protagonist turns his grandfather's farm into a cemetery for wealthy Jews who left the country - has had the biggest commercial success...Chinese, Japanese and Hindi. European countries such as Germany, Italy, France and Holland are most open to Israeli writers...
- Man about Europe.(ESSAY)(Harry Count Kessler)(Biography)
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Sherman, A.J. May 1, 2005 700+ words
...otherwise have been amid the stifling conformism of Imperial Germany's social elite. Living at the pinnacle of German and international...His position was indeed analogous to that of the very few wealthy Jews who were accepted at Court, but always on sufferance, wary...
- The Ghetto Uprising and The Battle of Warsaw: 50 Years Ago
- Newspaper article from: Polish-American Journal Mark Kohan August 1, 1994 700+ words
...Before any shots were fired, before any soil was claimed for Germany, Adolph Hitler had coldly calculated his plans for Poland...occupied Poland. They also provided the Germans with a record of wealthy Jews. Meanwhile, German agents were to stage anti-Semitic incidents...
