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The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction

Jay Howard Geller

"A collective biography of the family of the Jewish scholar Gershom Scholem and a social history of the Jewish middle class in Germany from the era of emancipation through the Holocaust"--

HistoryWorld History · medium confidenceWorld History81 signalsLlm Classifier: World History -> World HistoryKeyword Classifier: Biography -> BiographyKeyword Classifier: Religion -> ReligionClass, Poverty & InequalityReconstructionSlavery & Emancipation

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Cundill History PrizeMajor2019LonglistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Gershom Scholem80%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    70 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.