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Article: The Invisible Wall: Germans and Jews, A Personal Exploration.
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- The Nation
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- October 19, 1998
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THE INVISIBLE WALL: Germans and Jews. A Personal Exploration. By W. Michael Blumenthal. Counterpoint. 444 pp. $27.50.
German Jewry has a long, distinguished and painful history Its optimistic beginnings, marked by promises of living conditions superior to those elsewhere in Europe, were followed by centuries of intense challenges. Over the years, Jews managed to gain entry into German society, first with limited rights as ghetto inhabitants and so-called Court Jews and eventually as citizens of the state. In great measure, the rise of German Jewry is a success story. It is a tale of remarkable integration, of cultural, financial and political advancement and of an ...