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Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German CountrysideFor more information, the Berlitz story, and research/resource materials, visit PortraitsOfOurPast.com.
“Emily C. Rose’s Portrait of Our Past is a meticulously painted canvas of life in the 18th and 19th centuries for southwestern Germany’s rural Jews. A student of European history, Ms. Rose began her research in 1994 out of curiosity about her own family’s beginnings. She does an impressive and scholarly job of assembling original sources using remarkably preserved records from both German and Jewish archives of small towns and villages. She expands a narrowly focused family history into an interesting record of a resourceful and resilient people who make lives, create families and build communities in spite of constant discriminatory practices, malice and capriciousness of the churches and the ruling princes.”
--Jewish Book Council, Program National Jewish Book Awards 2001-2002 “May be unique in highlighting the experiences of rural Jews in 18th- and 19th-century Germany...This absorbing study weaves her discoveries about her...ancestors' experiences with the larger history...Enhanced by dozens of...illustrations." --Publishers Weekly  Joseph David Berlizheimer,
1761-1855 The paintings led Rose on a five-year journey to discover her heritage and the world of rural Germany. In the course of her research she uncovered a rich trove of documents, images, facts, and stories that paint a vivid picture of daily life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although recent books describe life in the shtetls in eastern Europe as well as in major cities of central Europe, never before has a book chronicled the experience of Jews living in the German countryside during this period.Includes over seventy-five black and white illustrations, a guide for researchers, maps, bibliography and index.” --jacket flap, Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside  Gustel Kaz Berlizheimer,
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