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Though the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, Todd Presner looks instead to the completion of the first German railway lines and their role in remapping the cultural geography and intellectual history of Germany's Jews.<br> <br> Treating the German railway as both an iconic symbol of modernity and a crucial social, technological, and political force, Presner advances a groundbreaking interpretation of the ways in whi
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- Author
- Todd Samuel Presner
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231511582
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Judaism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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