Screen LibraryThe german-jewish experience revisited /
This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry.
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Perspectives on jewish texts and contexts;
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry. |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110367195 |
| Index Number: | DS134 |
| CLC: | K516.8 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- The Jews as Educators of Humanity a Christian-Philosemitic Grand Narrative of Jewish Modernity? / Transfers of Categories: the German-Jewish Experience and Beyond / German Classicism and Judaism / Aliens vs. Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs. Jewish Nomads / Between Decay and Doom: Zionist Discourses of "Untergang" in Germany, 1890 to 1933 / Popular Entertainment and Mass Media: The Central Arenas of German-Jewish Cultural Engagement / Aby Warburg and Weimar Jewish Culture: Navigating Normative Narratives, Counternarratives, and Historical Context / The Jewish Places of Weimar Cinema: Reconsidering Karl Grune s The Street / Jewish Liberalism in the Weimar Republic? Reconsidering a Key Element of Political Culture in the Interwar Era / History in the House of the Hangman: How Po stwar Germany Became a Key Site for the Study of Jewish History / Non-Jewish Perspectives on German-Jewish History. A Generational Project? / Rabbi S. R. Hirsch and his Perception of Germany and German Jewry / Between East and West: Pauline Wengeroff and her Cultural History of the Jews of Russia / The Anti-Nazi Plays of Habimah during the 1930s and the Making of Eretz-Israel Bildung / Berlin and Jerusalem: Toward German-Hebrew Studies / Postscript / Notes on Contributors. |