TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gerlach, Lisa
T1  - Väter, Söhne, Beziehungen, Netzwerke
BT  - Empfehlungsschreiben jüdischer Eliten im 19. Jahrhundert
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
N2  - The paper investigates how cultural and social capital were passed down to the next generations via letters of recommendation. Focusing on fathers recommending their sons to German Jewish banker Gerson (von) Bleichröder, the paper asks how father-son relations were described and which role equivalent backgrounds, especially in terms of Jewishness and social standing, played in this process. Mainly discussed are four different patriarchs approaching Bleichröder on behalf of their sons to further their careers. Making use of methods such as historical network analysis and semantic analysis the paper introduces the letters of recommendation as a complex yet promising practice in order to maintain, strengthen and even further the family’s (social) capital over generational changes. The paper finds trust and tradition to be crucial for successful recommendations. Situated at a liminal point of economic and personal spheres, recommendations shed new light on crucial questions of 19th-century Jewish history, such as acculturation and distinctiveness as well as on intra-familial dynamics in the face of profound social transformation.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-485704
SN  - 978-3-86956-493-7
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
VL  - 2020
IS  - 26
SP  - 89
EP  - 105
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -