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Mobile Modernity [Elektronische Ressource] : Germans, Jews, Trains

New York : Columbia University Press, 2012

385 p.

Cultures of History

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978-0-231-14012-6

NY 4000 NY 4620 NY 4620

 

Deutsche  Juden  Intellektueller  Mobilität  Eisenbahn  Deutschland  Judentum  Kultur  Geistesleben  f Online-Publikation  Schriftsteller  Akkulturation  Geschichte 1800-1945 

 

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978-0-231-51158-2

 

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. 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 which mobility is inextricably linked to German and Jewish visions of modernity. Moving beyond the...