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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 ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The German-Jewish Economic Elite, 1820-1935: A Socio-Cultural Profile.