Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798-1871.(Review)

Journal of Social History | March 22, 1999| | Copyright

By Shulamit S. Magnus (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xii plus 336pp. $49.50).

Among the excellent illustrations in her book, Shulamit S. Magnus shows a souvenir map of Cologne and its environs from the late nineteenth century. Drawings of the cathedral, the Rathaus, and other tourist sites border the map, but it also features the Cologne synagogue, the prominence of which dwarfs a local Bismarck monument. The artifact of popular culture evinces the degree to which Cologne's Jews had become a self-evident component of city life by the 1870s, a status that was ...

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