Author: Georg HermannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Hetty Geybert
Author: Georg HermannThe Bookman
Author: The American Hebrew
Author: The Judge
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
T.P.'s and Cassell's Weekly
Author: Brothers and Strangers
Author: Steven E. AschheimPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299091139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Brothers and Strangers traces the history of German Jewish attitudes, policies, and stereotypical images toward Eastern European Jews, demonstrating the ways in which the historic rupture between Eastern and Western Jewry developed as a function of modernism and its imperatives. By the 1880s, most German Jews had inherited and used such negative images to symbolize rejection of their own ghetto past and to emphasize the contrast between modern “enlightened” Jewry and its “half-Asian” counterpart. Moreover, stereotypes of the ghetto and the Eastern Jew figured prominently in the growth and disposition of German anti-Semitism. Not everyone shared these negative preconceptions, however, and over the years a competing post-liberal image emerged of the Ostjude as cultural hero. Brothers and Strangers examines the genesis, development, and consequences of these changing forces in their often complex cultural, political, and intellectual contexts.
The Open Shelf
Author: The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: McNaught's Monthly
Author: Virgil V. McNittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Jewess Pallas Athena
Author: Barbara HahnPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400826586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century? This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It ends two hundred years later, with another group of Jewish women looking back at a country from which they had been expelled and to which they would never want to return. Among the many prominent female intellectuals and literary figures Barbara Hahn discusses are Hannah Arendt, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Rosa Luxemburg, Else Lasker-Schüler, Margarete Susman, and Rahel Levin Varnhagen. In examining their writing, she reflects upon the question of how German culture was constructed--with its inherent patterns of exclusion. This is a book about hope and despair, possibilities and preventions. We see attempts at dialogue between Christians and Jews, men and women, "Germans" and "Jews," attempts initiated by these women that, for the most part, remained unanswered. Finally, the book reconstructs the changing notions of the "Jewess," a key word in modern German history with its connotations of "salons," "beauty," and "esprit." And yet a word that is also disastrous, in which there culminated everything the dominant culture condemned as dangerous.