| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Tobias Brinkmann. Von der Gemeinde zur "Community": Jüdische Einwanderer in Chicago, 1840–1900. (Studien zur Historischen Migrationsforschung, number 10.) Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch. 2002. Pp. 488. €29,90.
This book exemplifies the growing cross-fertilization between American and German social concepts and definitions undertaken by young German scholars of German Jewry. While scholars such as Till van Rahden studied Jewish communities in Germany using American concepts like "multi-ethnic society" and "situational ethnicity," Tobias Brinkmann brings to bear both American and European perspectives in this study of the Jewish immigrant community of Chicago. The author draws together four historical fields that he claims other scholars treat in isolation: German Jewry, American Jewry, German-American immigration, and American urban social history.	1
The ostensible focus of Brinkmann's study is the changing conception and institutional structure of "community" (a word he uses untranslated throughout his German-language text) among nineteenth-century Chicago Jews. His exploration of the replacement of the traditional Einheitsgemeinde (unified organic community) by a loose federation of voluntary institutions and a vague sense of community will appear more innovative to his German audience than to American readers, who take the latter type of structure for granted. Happily, this study goes well beyond this relatively narrow theme, presenting a wealth of information on the changing socioeconomic characteristics of Chicago Jewry.	. . .

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