1703121007     

[Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press [2017], 2017

1 Online-Ressource (1 electronic resource (353 p.))

English

978-0-472-90111-1 ; 978-0-472-13041-2

OCoLC: 1112140457     

JZ1308

305.892/404     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: German literature -- Jewish authors ; Jews in literature ; Jews -- Europe -- Identity ; Cosmopolitanism -- Europe ; Europe -- Ethnic relations

HISTORY / General ; Cosmopolitanism ; Ethnic relations ; German literature ; Jewish authors ; Jews ; Identity ; Jews in literature ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies ; Europe

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets out from an exploration of the nature and cultural-political implications of the shifting perceptions of Jewish mobility and fluidity around 1800, when modern cosmopolitanist discourse arose. Through a series of case studies, the authors analyze the historical and discursive junctures that mark the central paradigm shifts in the Jewish self-image, from the Wandering Jew to the rootless parasite, the cosmopolitan, and the socialist internationalist. Chapters analyze the tensions and dualisms in the constructed relationship between cosmopolitanism and the Jews at particular historical junctures between 1800 and the present, and probe into the relationship between earlier anti-Semitic discourses on Jewish cosmopolitanism and Stalinist rhetoric