ISBN:
0415463238
,
0203894030
,
9780415463232
,
9780203894033
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 118 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Jewish studies series
Parallel Title:
Print version German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust : Kafka's kitsch
DDC:
305.892/404309041
Keywords:
Popular culture
;
Jews Intellectual life 20th century
;
Jews in popular culture History 20th century
Abstract:
Using modern social theory, David Brenner examines how German-Jewish identity was influenced by the production and consumption of popular culture
Description / Table of Contents:
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Identifying (with) German-Jewish popular culture; 1 BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW, LAUGHTER AND TEARS: Making Yiddish theater "respectable" in turn-of-the-century Jewish Berlin; 2 "SCHLEMIEL, SHLIMAZEL": A proto-postcolonialist satire of "Jews," "Blacks," and "Germans"; 3 A GERMAN-JEWISH HERMAPHRODITE: Or what sexology contributed to B'nai B'rith; 4 FRANZ'S FOLK(LORE): Kafka's Jewish father complex; 5 POGROM IN…BERLIN?: Working through the Weimar Jewish experience in popular fiction
Description / Table of Contents:
6 AFTER THE "SCHOAH": Performing German-Jewish symbiosis todayNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-115) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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