Jewish Women in Old Berlin

Hels publishes a review about Jewish Women and their Salons:

"Jewish collectors seemed to be open to modern art, and one salon was critically important. Felicie Rosen­thal 1850-1908 married Carl Bernstein, leaving St Pet­ersburg to set up their home in Berlin. Her salon was quite into modernity and risk taking. They were known as the first to buy French Impress­ion­ist art in Germany, and hang them on their walls in the salon."

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"Viennese and Berlin salons were almost all run by Jewish women. Several gen­er­at­ions of Itzigs rescued the Bachs from obscurity. So why did this 100 year period of Jewish dialogue with high culture come to a crushing end. The beginning of the C20th brought in the real end of salons in central Europe. War turmoil, new ways of spending free time like travel and mass media meant women of leisure spent their time diff­er­ently. And because political intens­ity and commitment became, by 1914, more important that polite, witty conversation."

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