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The Study On The Jewish Women Salon From The Late 18th Century To The Early 19th Century

Posted on:2010-06-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q Q NiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360275993496Subject:World History
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After the convulsion of French revolution, the Europe looked exhausted in the end of eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Wars and panic had heavy shock on the development of nations and societies and the public's mind, as a result, the France had lost it's leading role in fashion, and the French neglected the congruity and resonance of culture in the society, besides salons which sparked plug and opened by women had lost it's vital force and had been margined. But with the Napoleon's battle, the salon culture took root in other countries, and the most special example was the jewish women salon which succeeded to its French ladies', and this action leaded Prussia a special characteristic in the tedious Germany. This thesis focuses on pursuing jewish salon's root, expatiating the course and direction of it's evolvement, exploring current specialization.Firstly, the feathered jewish women salon. The jewish women salon experienced complex process, in the beginning, the royal and noble women of Germany followed the lead of French aristocrat, because of not being good at arrangement and management, they came down. But until the eighteenth century, the jewish women combined nation's liberation and rights of themselves with salon, which bought great impulsion both on tradition and culture in Germany. So, the influence of jewish women salon again attracted royalty and aristocrat to open the salon, in this process, jewish women'salon undergone beginning and transfer, some jewish women who came from Berlin acted as protagonists, which let exotic salon have more developing space. And then, with the development of its scale and force, the jewish salon had proliferated other states and areas, resulting in a lot of salon beachhead.Secondly, analyzing the reasons of opening jewish women salon. With the different from France, the jewish women had more complicated motivation, they hoped being in harmony with German society, letting the jewish break away from embarrassed place. They responded the calling of Moses Mendelssohn, bought the nature of Haskalah to the salon's function and management, which had a little contribution to the jewish' liberation in the end of eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Some relevant factors lead to the birth of jewish women salon, the salon which let jewish women strengthen the affection on culture, let Germans be familiar with and take delight in this exquisite entertainment.Thirdly, orientation of jewish women'salon in the early nineteenthcentury. The prosperity of jewish women salon in this period let salonguests believe that the illusion of small Utopia could come true ultimately, but the difficulties which salon encountered in Germany proved beinglacking adaption. The development of salon mingled hope and fear inthose times, on the one hand, the violent anti-Semitism in some Germanstates, jewish women salon had been jeered as a effective tool of jews, so jewish women escaped to other counties and lost its power of words and initiative, which were replaced with large numbers of newspaper and female societies, in the end, jewish women salon , presented margined role gradually, and a lot of salons were closed. On the other hand, some smart jewish women had good foresight, they made salon have new branches, such as political salon and musical salon, which let people know its flexibility, besides with the jews' migration, this new kind of salon spread to other nations and had some influence on its culture.In a word, although jewish women salon had a short existence in Germany, just about decades of years from the end of eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, it marked on the history of literature and culture in Germany, the birth and development and decline of jewish women salon became the important factors of exploring the cultural trend of Europe and Germany.
Keywords/Search Tags:Germany, Jew, women salon
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