| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Deutsche Juden in Amerika: Bürgerliches Selbstbewusstsein und jüdische Identität in den Orden B'nai B'rith und Treue Schwestern, 1843–1914 (German Jews in America: Middle-class self- assurance and Jewish identity in the B'nai B'rith Order and True Sisters, 1843–1914). By Cornelia Wilhelm. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007. 372 pp. €48.00, ISBN 978-3-515-08550-2.) In German.

Cornelia Wilhelm has undertaken an ambitious task in using the histories of two fraternal/sororal orders, the B'nai B'rith and the Order of True Sisters, to elicit the mentalité of German Jews in America from the 1840s to the early twentieth century. Focusing in particular on the relationship between the orders and the leaders of Reform Judaism, she seeks to explicate the role of the orders in formulating a new American form of Judaism and to go beyond a mere organizational history. She only partially succeeds, but it is a valiant attempt.

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