Deborah Hertz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetDeborah Hertz
American historian
Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1949
Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Profession: historian
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Deborah Hertz
- Deborah Hertz (born February 9, 1949), is an American historian whose specialties are modern German history, modern Jewish history and modern European women's history.
- Her current research focuses on the history of radical Jewish women.Since 2004, she has taught at the University of California, San Diego, as a professor of history and is the Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies.
- She is the co-founder and co-director of the Holocaust Living History Workshop at UCSD, a joint project of the UCSD Library and the Jewish Studies Program. Hertzâs first book, Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin (Yale, 1988 and Syracuse, 2005).
- It traces the rise and decline of Jewish salons in Berlin at the close of the eighteenth century.
- Jewish High Society appeared in a German edition called Die jĂźdischen Salons im alten Berlin, published by Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag.
- A new edition of the German translation with a new preface appeared in July 2018, published by the Europäische Verlagsanstalt."For the first time a serious attempt is made to ascertain precisely why the salons came to exist at this time; why in Berlin; who frequented them; and for what reasons."âLionel Kochan, Journal of Jewish Studies"A rich, sophisticated, and original social history.
- It contributes to our knowledge and understanding of German history in a period whose social aspects have long been neglected by scholars.
- It also makes a significant contribution to Jewish history and to womenâs history."âMary Nolan, New York University"An interesting and amusing book about this era."âAlexander Zvielli, Jerusalem PostHer second book is How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin (Yale, 2007).
- It examines the frequency and significance of Jewish conversion to the Lutheran faith from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century.
- This book has also been translated into German under the title Wie Juden Deutsche wurden: Die Welt jĂźdischer Konvertiten vom 17.
- bis zum 19.
- Jahrhundert, published by Campus Verlag."A book rich in humorous and touching vignettes, How Jews Became Germans gives human form to the themes of its history."âChristopher Clark, St.
- Catharine's College, Cambridge"A wonderfully crafted book, written with great empathy.
- It provides a careful social and political analysis of conversion trends among Berlin's Jewish population, but avoids easy moral and historical judgments.ââUte Frevert, Yale UniversityâA pioneering effort to explore a controversial subject commonly treated in all-too easy terms of âloyaltyâ and âbetrayal.â Important."âAmos Elon, author of The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933âThere is no book more exciting to read than one by an author who believes he or she was born to write it.
- In such books every line becomes a paragraph, every paragraph a chapter, and the book itself a never-ending story.
- Deborah Hertz's How Jews Became Germans is such a book.âIn addition, Deborah Hertz edited letters written by the Jewish writer Rahel Varnhagen to her friend and writer Rebecca Friedländer: Briefe an eine Freundin: Rahel Varnhagen an Rebecca Friedländer (Cologne, 1988 and 2018).
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