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Jews in German Society: Prague, 1860–1914

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The development of social interaction between Jews and Gentiles offers a fertile area of research to historians of modern Central Europe. Examining the place of Jews in Gentile society, of course, furthers understanding of both the proponents and victims of political anti-Semitism. Yet such study is also needed to deepen our knowledge of the values and social structures that characterized German and Austrian liberal society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Too often in recent years historians have studied Central Europe in the half century before World War I merely to seek the roots of the traumatic events of the 1930s and 1940s. Consequently, the rise of the radical right and left has been examined in some detail, and historians have generally emphasized the fragility of liberal culture. One tends to assume that in the late nineteenth century few among the Central European middle classes took liberalism seriously enough to accept extensive or sustained Jewish participation in Gentile society, but in fact little systematic work has been done on the actual social relations between Jews and Gentiles.

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A shorter version of this paper was read at a symposium on Jews and Germans at the turn of the century held at Washington University in April 1976. The author wishes to thank Herbert Gutman, David Hammack, and Theodore Rabb for their helpful comments and suggestions on early drafts of the paper.

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51. The actual portion was 77.3%, Prague City Archive, fond spolků: Deutsches Haus, “Mitglieder Verzeichnis des Vereines des Deutschen Casino, 1879–1880.”

52. Prague City Archive, fond spolků: Deutsches Haus, “Mitglieder Verzeichnis des Vereines des Deutschen Casino, 1898–99.”

53. The Jewish members were identified by comparing the Casino's membership lists with the registries of taxpayers for the Jewish Religious Community of Prague for the years 1870, 1891, 1901, and 1912 in the State Jewish Museum, Prague, records of the Jewish Religious Community of Prague.

54. Prague City Archive, fond spolků: Haus, Deutsches, “Namens-Verzeichnis der Mitglieder des Deutschen Casinos nach dem Stande vom 31. Dezember 1907.”Google Scholar

55. Central State Archive, Prague, PP 1888–1892 V/39/1: “Verwaltungsbericht des Vorstandes des Deutschen Turnvereins in Prag für das Jahr 1887.”

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57. Checking the membership of the Casino against the tax registries of the Jewish Religious Community (seen. 53), I found that 86% of the Jewish Casino members in 1898–99 were in the upper half of the Jewish population ranked according to their tax payments in 1901, 55% in the highest quartile.

58. Stölzl, Christoph, Kafkas böses Böhmen: Zur Sozialgeschichte eines Prager Juden (Munich, 1975), p. 81, describes Bruno Kafka as having been baptized without offering any source. Kafka was still Jewish as of the time he took his doctorate in law in 1904; Charles University Archive, Prague: “Matricula Doctorum Univ. Prag. Germ.,” 2.Google Scholar

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60. See the biographical sketch published in Selbstwehr, Sept. 2, 1910, on the occasion of Bendiener's seventieth birthday.

61. Contrast this to the opposite conclusions on Jewish notables in Western and Central Europe in the late nineteenth century in Arendt, Hannah, The Origins of Totalitarianism, pp. 6263.Google Scholar

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63. Prague City Archive, fond spolků: Deutsches Haus, “Beschwerdebuch des Lesezimmers 1899–1928,” entries of Sept. 20 and 26, 1899. For a similar incident, see Teweles, Heinrich, Theater und Publikum (Prague, 1927), pp. 124–25.Google Scholar

64. Bohemia and Prager Tagblatt, June 23, 1907 (morning), both report such an incident.

65. The Old Czech Politik, Sept. 5, 1893, offers a characteristic example.

66. Central State Archive, Prague, PP 1900–1907 V/15/10 Deutscher Verein: VS 492/NE 2423pp. Mar. 21, 1883, police report; PMT 1888 48/88, Apr. 11, 1888, police report; and PP 1888–1892 V/39/1 Deutscher Tumverein in Prag: police reports for June 1888. See discussion in Cohen, “The Prague Germans,” pp. 333–41, 382–91.

67. Else Bergmann, , “Familiengeschichte” (unpubl. typescript in the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, used by permission), p. 31, presents an instance of thisGoogle Scholar. By citing this same case out of context, Kestenberg-Gladstein, in The Jews of Czechoslovakia, 1: 54, uses it to exemplify the insults to which Jews were purportedly subject in Prague German society.Google Scholar

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71. Ibid. vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 16–21.

72. Oesterreichisches Stadtebuch, 15: 1011.Google Scholar

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76. Prague City Archive, manuscript census returns. See Cohen, “The Prague Germans,” pp. 591–94, for a description of the sampling procedures. These samples were drawn originally to study the occupational structures of the Czech and German populations, for which the sample size is adequate. Here, however, the clusters, i.e., the numbered buildings or parcels, are the crucial unit, and rigorous statistical procedure would require sampling a much larger number of clusters. Because of limited access to the manuscript materials, this was not practicable, and for purposes of significance tests I have had to treat the samples as if they were direct random samples. See Blalock, Hubert M. Jr., Social Statistics, 2d ed. (New York, 1972), pp. 523–27, for a sensible discussion of the practicalities of cluster sampling.Google Scholar

77. At No. 6 Na poříčí in the Lower New Town, for instance, Jewish families occupied fourteen of the twenty flats for most of the period from 1880 to 1910. Two of these were the families of Louis and Josef Brandeis, brothers and partners in an iron and hardware business. Beginning in 1890 they were joined by the household of yet another German Jewish iron dealer; Prague City Archive, manuscript census returns for 1038/II, 1880, 1890, and 1910.

78. See sources in n. 62, n. 63, and n. 66 above.

79. Significance test: Using Fisher's z transformation of rxy, Z=o.59, which is less than the minimum value of 1.65 necessary for a significant difference with 95% certainty. Because of the small number of German Gentiles in the 1910 sample, any conclusions about their behavior are dubious. The manuscript returns for 1900 are too incomplete and in too much disarray for sampling.

80. The extensive body of memoirs and novels bears this out. See Else Bergmann, “Familiengeschichte,” Bondy, Ottilie, “Ein Beitrag zu einer Familiengeschichte des Hauses Michael Beermann Teller 1790–1896” (unpubl. typescript in the Leo Baeck Institute, New York);Google ScholarBrod, Max, Streitbares Leben 1884–1968, rev. ed. (Munich, Berlin, and Vienna, 1969); Auguste Hauschner, Die Familie Lowositz; Egon Erwin Kisch, Marktplatz der Sensational (Mexico City, 1942); and Emil Utitz, Egon Erwin Kisch (Berlin, 1956).Google Scholar

81. Anthropologists and sociologists use “enculturation” to describe the transmission and perpetuation of a culture within a group. See Mead, Margaret, “Socialization and Enculturation,” Current Anthropology 4 (1963): 184–88CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and idem, , “Grandparents as Educators,” Teachers College Record 86 (1974): 240–49.Google Scholar

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83. See Cohen, , “The Prague Germans,” chaps. 2 and 3.Google Scholar

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