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7. Jacob R. Marcus , Israel Jacobson , Cincinnati , 1972, is a charming biography of this leader; this study was first published in 1928. Details of Jacobson ’s efforts, what influenced him and critical analyses may be found in many of the works cited in this study.
8. Little is known about the literacy of the average Jewish woman in the Middle Ages. The publication of devotional books in Judeo-German specifically addressed (0 women attests to some degree of literacy in northern Europe . Through the centuries a few well educated and scholarly women were mentioned. Matters changed in the eighteenth century, especially in Berlin , as the daughters of wealthy Jews received a broad secular education but little or nothing Jewish .
9. The records indicate that the school enrolled girls. Michael A. Meyer in his Response to Modernity, Oxford, New York , 1988, p. 39f., indicated that although the documents stated that girls were to participate in the Confirmation/graduation exercises of 1810 there is no indication that this occurred.
12. Mordecai Eliav, Jiidische Erziehung in Deutschland im Zeitalter der Aufkldrung und Emanzipation, Berlin , 2001. A more personal view is provided by some of the autobiographies in Monika Richarz , Jiidisches Leben in Deutschland Selbstzeugnisse zur Sozialgeschichte, 1780— 1871, New York , 1976.
13. Ismar Elbogen “Jiidische Geschichte und Literatur,” Moritz Stern , ‘Bibliographie” in Ludwig Geiger (ed.), Abraham Geiger Sein Leben und Lebenswerk, Berlin , 1910(republished in Berlin , 2001 under the auspieces of the Abraham Geiger College ); Max Wiener (ed.), abraham geiger and liberal judaism, Philadelphia , 1962- especially pp. 177 ff.; Michael A. Meyer .“Abraham Geiger ’s Historical Judaism in Jacob Petuchowski(ed.), New Perspectives on Abraham Geiger , Cincinnati , 1975.