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Secession: Modernism and its Enemies in Imperial Germany (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1980). The contributions in Emily D. Bilski (ed.), Berlin Metropolis: Jews
and the New Culture, 1890–1918 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999)
bring this debate up to date. This theme has been less developed in the French literature,
see, however: Kenneth E. Silver and Romy Golan (with contributions by Arthur A. Cohen,
Billy Klüver, and Julie Martin), The Circle of Montparnasse: Jewish Artists in Paris, 1905–
1945. Exhibition of the Jewish museum, (New York: The Jewish Museum, New York and
Universe Books, 1985).
14. Kaplan, Making of the Jewish Middle Class; Hyman, Gender and Assimilation.
15. Pierre Birnbaum and Ira Katznelson, “Emanciption and the Liberal Offer,” pp. 2–
36 in their Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States, and Citizenship (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1995); Paula E. Hyman, The Jews of Modern France (Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 1998).
16. Both of these are held in the Landesarchiv Berlin. The auction records are in the
series A. Rep. 243-04. The property lists (Vermögenserklärungen) are in: A Rep. 092 Der
Oberfinanzpräsident Berlin. There are in addition property expropriation files in the same
archive, some of which are very rich. See for example, Baupolizei, Bezirk Tiergarten/
Baupolizei und Straßenpolizei. 105 A Pr. Br. Rep. 030 Bln C Nr. 820 a. Enteignungsakte
Rauchstr. 11.
17. AN 38 AJ 5909-5927. Lettres de spoliés addressés au Service de restitution au sujet
de leurs biens (surtout inventaires de mobilier et de biens personnels), classées par ordre
alphabétique, 1944–46.
18. This is supported by how people marked the “religious” as opposed to “ethnic”
blanks on the inventories they filled out before being deported. All identified their ethnicity
as Jewish, but a significant number claimed other religious affiliation (or none at all).
19. Communication from Jacqueline Feldman. Her family’s claim is to be found in
AN 38 AJ 591. But, of course, her perspective was that of a child at the time of the
expropriation.
20. AN 38 AJ 5917.
21. Ibid.
22. AN 38 AJ 5912.
23. For the full elaboration of this argument, see Leora Auslander, Taste and Power:
Furnishing Modern France (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996); for a
more extensive discussion of conceptions of taste and citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s
see L. Auslander, “The Everyday of Citizenship: Aesthetics, Affect and Law in France and
Germany, 1890–1933,” in Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton (eds), Material Politics:
States, Consumers, and Political Cultures (Oxford: Berg, 2001).
24. AN 38 AJ 1917.
25. AN 38 AJ 5912.
26. AN 38 AJ 5909.
27. Ibid.
28. AN 38 AJ 5937.
29. Enno Kaufhold, Berliner Interieurs 1910–1930: Photographien von Waldemar
Titzenthaler (Berlin: Nicolai, 1999).
30. Jan T. Köhler et al., Berliner Lebenswelten der zwaniger Jahre: Bilder einer
untergegangene Kultur (Frankfurt: Eichborn, 1996), pp. 50–3; 64–7.
31. Landesarchiv Berlin 243-04 46.
32. Strauss, Over the Green Hill, p. 41.
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