ABSTRACT
Stratification, internal and international migration undermined the cohesion of Jewish mass settlements in Middle and Eastern Europe; baptism, mixed marriages, and declining birth rates marked the path of personal individuation. Despite considerable indifference in some quarters of the community, the Centralverein had in these years a membership of more than 60,000, representative of approximately 200,000 German Jews or 30 percent of the entire Jewish population. The policy of the Centralverein was determined by the nature of the attack and therefore directed toward the maintenance of contacts between Jews and Gentiles. Jews of Northern and Eastern Germany with Berlin as a center represent a more rational type, while Jews of Southern and Western Germany with Frankfort as a center represent a more conservative type. Thus, Jewish history has entered its Anglo-Saxon period, and Jewish morale, therefore, has become a matter of primary concern to the English-speaking nations.
