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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Hertz, Deborah
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| Publisher: |
Syracuse University Press
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| Date: |
06/28/2005
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day. Princes, nobles, upwardly mobile writers, actors, and beautiful Jewish women flocked to the salons of Rahel Varnhagen, Henriette Herz, and Dorothea von Courland, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the German past.
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