Melancholy pride : nation, race, and gender in the german literature of cultural zionism /

This study attempts to analyze the multi-faceted and complicated relationship between the Central European, Germanic-Austrian cultural milieu and the Jewish national literature and culture which evolved within it at the turn of the last century. Issues regarding the construction and differentiation...

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Main Authors: Gelber, Mark H.
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin ; Boston :
Publication Dates: 2014.
©2000
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Reprint 2014.
Series: Conditio judaica; volume23
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110956085
Summary: This study attempts to analyze the multi-faceted and complicated relationship between the Central European, Germanic-Austrian cultural milieu and the Jewish national literature and culture which evolved within it at the turn of the last century. Issues regarding the construction and differentiation of a modern Jewish national identity and culture as an aspect of Cultural Zionism are central to this project, as are the problematical literary and cultural partnerships forged in an age of rising racialist thought, growing feminist consciousness, and increasing secularism.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvi, 309pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9783110956085 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: DS134
CLC: I516.079
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface and Acknowledgements --
List of Illustrations --
Introduction. The Parameters of German Cultural Zionism: The Possibility of a Jewish-National Literature in German? --
Chapter One. The Jewish Renaissance in Vienna and Berlin: A Literature and Art for the Sake of Zion --
Chapter Two. Satisfaktionsf higkeit and Jewish Pride: The Literary and Cultural Expressions of Jewish Students and Fraternity Life at the Turn-of-the-Century --
Chapter Three. B rries von M nchhausen and E.M. Lilien: The Genesis of Juda and its Zionist Reception --
Chapter Four. The Rhetoric of Race and Jewish-National Cultural Politics: From Birnbaum and Buber to Brieger s Ren Richter --
Chapter Five. Feminist-Zionist Expression: Ideology, Rhetoric, and Literature --
Chapter Six. Eroticism and Masochism in Cultural Zionism: Else Lasker-Schiiler and Dolorosa --
Chapter Seven. "Strangers at Thy Gates": Anti-Semitism, Philo-Zionism, and the Role of Non-Jews in Jewish-National Culture275 --
Conclusion. German Cultural Zionism, Jewish Difference, Modern Jewish Cultural Identity and National Creativity --
Selected Bibliography --
Index.