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Friendship on the Margins: Jewish Social Relations in Imperial Germany

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Marion Kaplan
Marion Kaplan
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Historians who look at the stark contrast between the spectacular successes of Jews in late nineteenth-century Germany and their horrific end in the Holocaust only a few decades later continue to argue about the relative success or failure of Jewish integration into German society. Were Germany's 600, 000 Jews — only 1 percent of the population — fully integrated or not? Did they have non-Jewish friends or not? Were they accepted or were they strangers in their own land?

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Central European History , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , December 2001 , pp. 471 - 501
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