Author: Jack Zipes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Pp. 47-86 contain the texts of the two stories: "The Operated Jew", by Oskar Panizza (p. 47-74), and "The Operated Goy", by Mynona (pen name of Salomo Friedlaender). The first (published in 1893) is the story of a Jew who underwent radical surgery in order to become a bona fide German, but was unsuccessful due to a bout of drunkenness at his wedding to a Gentile woman, which caused him to disintegrate and reveal the truth. The second story, written in 1922 as a reaction to the first, narrates the tale of an antisemitic Prussian aristocrat who was enchanted by a Jewess, became a religiously observant Jew, and settled in Palestine. Pp. 87-109, "Oskar Panizza: The Operated German as Operated Jew", relate Panizza's biography and try to explain what impelled Panizza to write "The Operated Jew". The story, although antisemitic (as Panizza himself was in the early period of his writing), is also critical of German society, which oppressed the individual; thus, to be German means self-destruction for the Jew. Pp. 110-137, "Salomo Friedlaender: The Anonymous Jew as a Laughing Philosopher", relate his biography and state that Friedlaender wanted to show that, despite the racial difference, German-Jewish symbiosis may be achieved. Pp. 1-46 contain the essay "Preliminary Diagnosis", reflecting on Jewish existence in a prejudiced world, especially in postwar Germany, both West and East. Now, as in the past, the Jew is compelled in one way or another to seek his "normalization" in society, and thus to "operate" on himself.
The Operated Jew
Author: Jack Zipes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Pp. 47-86 contain the texts of the two stories: "The Operated Jew", by Oskar Panizza (p. 47-74), and "The Operated Goy", by Mynona (pen name of Salomo Friedlaender). The first (published in 1893) is the story of a Jew who underwent radical surgery in order to become a bona fide German, but was unsuccessful due to a bout of drunkenness at his wedding to a Gentile woman, which caused him to disintegrate and reveal the truth. The second story, written in 1922 as a reaction to the first, narrates the tale of an antisemitic Prussian aristocrat who was enchanted by a Jewess, became a religiously observant Jew, and settled in Palestine. Pp. 87-109, "Oskar Panizza: The Operated German as Operated Jew", relate Panizza's biography and try to explain what impelled Panizza to write "The Operated Jew". The story, although antisemitic (as Panizza himself was in the early period of his writing), is also critical of German society, which oppressed the individual; thus, to be German means self-destruction for the Jew. Pp. 110-137, "Salomo Friedlaender: The Anonymous Jew as a Laughing Philosopher", relate his biography and state that Friedlaender wanted to show that, despite the racial difference, German-Jewish symbiosis may be achieved. Pp. 1-46 contain the essay "Preliminary Diagnosis", reflecting on Jewish existence in a prejudiced world, especially in postwar Germany, both West and East. Now, as in the past, the Jew is compelled in one way or another to seek his "normalization" in society, and thus to "operate" on himself.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Pp. 47-86 contain the texts of the two stories: "The Operated Jew", by Oskar Panizza (p. 47-74), and "The Operated Goy", by Mynona (pen name of Salomo Friedlaender). The first (published in 1893) is the story of a Jew who underwent radical surgery in order to become a bona fide German, but was unsuccessful due to a bout of drunkenness at his wedding to a Gentile woman, which caused him to disintegrate and reveal the truth. The second story, written in 1922 as a reaction to the first, narrates the tale of an antisemitic Prussian aristocrat who was enchanted by a Jewess, became a religiously observant Jew, and settled in Palestine. Pp. 87-109, "Oskar Panizza: The Operated German as Operated Jew", relate Panizza's biography and try to explain what impelled Panizza to write "The Operated Jew". The story, although antisemitic (as Panizza himself was in the early period of his writing), is also critical of German society, which oppressed the individual; thus, to be German means self-destruction for the Jew. Pp. 110-137, "Salomo Friedlaender: The Anonymous Jew as a Laughing Philosopher", relate his biography and state that Friedlaender wanted to show that, despite the racial difference, German-Jewish symbiosis may be achieved. Pp. 1-46 contain the essay "Preliminary Diagnosis", reflecting on Jewish existence in a prejudiced world, especially in postwar Germany, both West and East. Now, as in the past, the Jew is compelled in one way or another to seek his "normalization" in society, and thus to "operate" on himself.
The Operated Jew and The Operated Goy
Author: Jack Zipes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000910512
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by Jack Zipes, this book presents and examines the work of two little-known writers, Oskar Panizza and Mynona (Salomo Friedlaender). In Panizza’s chilling story, The Operated Jew (1893), a turn-of-the- century Jew undergoes a series of disfiguring operations that transform him into a ‘European’. The tale mingles loathing with compassion for its title character. Thirty years later, Panizza’s tale was answered by Mynona, an urbane German Jew who turned the story’s tables in The Operated Goy (1922). In his introduction and essays, Jack Zipes explores some of the myths of modern anti-Semitic thought. He also examines parallels between the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe and the violence of Arabs and Israelis in the Middle East, issues which have an enduring relevance and are as pertinent in the 21st Century as when the book was first published.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000910512
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by Jack Zipes, this book presents and examines the work of two little-known writers, Oskar Panizza and Mynona (Salomo Friedlaender). In Panizza’s chilling story, The Operated Jew (1893), a turn-of-the- century Jew undergoes a series of disfiguring operations that transform him into a ‘European’. The tale mingles loathing with compassion for its title character. Thirty years later, Panizza’s tale was answered by Mynona, an urbane German Jew who turned the story’s tables in The Operated Goy (1922). In his introduction and essays, Jack Zipes explores some of the myths of modern anti-Semitic thought. He also examines parallels between the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe and the violence of Arabs and Israelis in the Middle East, issues which have an enduring relevance and are as pertinent in the 21st Century as when the book was first published.
Alien Imaginations
Author: Ulrike K�chler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501319973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
"The figure of the alien is at the heart of science fiction and has helped us to understand and explore interactions with other cultures and the possibilities of life beyond both the modern configuration of the nation-state and the natural order of life on earth. Alien Imaginations brings together canonical and contemporary works in the cinema and literature of science fiction, transnationalism, and globalization in order to examine the role of the alien as well as the realities of migration, labor, and life in the twenty-first century. The essays in this collection discuss films such as District 9, Avatar, and Code 46, as well as novels by H.G. Wells, Philip K. Dick, or Ray Bradbury. As we continue down the road to a global economy and culture, Alien Imaginations offers a critical reflection upon our 'imagined realities' while also turning to speculative fiction and cinema to provide us with examples of resistance, if not a utopian horizon"--
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501319973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
"The figure of the alien is at the heart of science fiction and has helped us to understand and explore interactions with other cultures and the possibilities of life beyond both the modern configuration of the nation-state and the natural order of life on earth. Alien Imaginations brings together canonical and contemporary works in the cinema and literature of science fiction, transnationalism, and globalization in order to examine the role of the alien as well as the realities of migration, labor, and life in the twenty-first century. The essays in this collection discuss films such as District 9, Avatar, and Code 46, as well as novels by H.G. Wells, Philip K. Dick, or Ray Bradbury. As we continue down the road to a global economy and culture, Alien Imaginations offers a critical reflection upon our 'imagined realities' while also turning to speculative fiction and cinema to provide us with examples of resistance, if not a utopian horizon"--
Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History
Author: Iris Idelson-Shein
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350052159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This is the first study of monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity. Drawing on Jewish history, literary studies, folklore, art history and the history of science, it examines both the historical depiction of Jews as monsters and the creative use of monstrous beings in Jewish culture. Jews have occupied a liminal position within European society and culture, being deeply immersed yet outsiders to it. For this reason, they were perceived in terms of otherness and were often represented as monstrous beings. However, at the same time, European Jews invoked, with tantalizing ubiquity, images of magical, terrifying and hybrid beings in their texts, art and folktales. These images were used by Jewish authors and artists to push back against their own identification as monstrous or diabolical and to tackle concerns about religious persecution, assimilation and acculturation, gender and sexuality, science and technology and the rise of antisemitism. Bringing together an impressive cast of contributors from around the world, this fascinating volume is an invaluable resource for academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in Jewish studies, as well as the history of monsters.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350052159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This is the first study of monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity. Drawing on Jewish history, literary studies, folklore, art history and the history of science, it examines both the historical depiction of Jews as monsters and the creative use of monstrous beings in Jewish culture. Jews have occupied a liminal position within European society and culture, being deeply immersed yet outsiders to it. For this reason, they were perceived in terms of otherness and were often represented as monstrous beings. However, at the same time, European Jews invoked, with tantalizing ubiquity, images of magical, terrifying and hybrid beings in their texts, art and folktales. These images were used by Jewish authors and artists to push back against their own identification as monstrous or diabolical and to tackle concerns about religious persecution, assimilation and acculturation, gender and sexuality, science and technology and the rise of antisemitism. Bringing together an impressive cast of contributors from around the world, this fascinating volume is an invaluable resource for academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in Jewish studies, as well as the history of monsters.
Multiculturalism and the Jews
Author: Sander Gilman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135208190
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims. How do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn defined, within the global struggles of the moment, struggles that turn in large part around a secularized Christian perspective? Gilman uses his subject to unpack a sequence of important issues: what does it mean to be multicultural? Can the experience of diaspora Judaism serve as a useful model for Islam in today's multicultural Europe? What is a multicultural ethnic? Other chapters look at specific figures in Jewish cultural history – Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka, Israel Zangwill, Philip Roth, the hermaphrodite N.O. Body (aka Karl Baer, raised as Martha Baer) – to explore issues within Jewish identity. Throughout, Gilman pays keen attention to the ways in which contemporary literature – Chabon, Ozick, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, Gary Shteyngart – taking the idea of Jewishness and multiculturalism into new arenas.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135208190
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims. How do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn defined, within the global struggles of the moment, struggles that turn in large part around a secularized Christian perspective? Gilman uses his subject to unpack a sequence of important issues: what does it mean to be multicultural? Can the experience of diaspora Judaism serve as a useful model for Islam in today's multicultural Europe? What is a multicultural ethnic? Other chapters look at specific figures in Jewish cultural history – Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka, Israel Zangwill, Philip Roth, the hermaphrodite N.O. Body (aka Karl Baer, raised as Martha Baer) – to explore issues within Jewish identity. Throughout, Gilman pays keen attention to the ways in which contemporary literature – Chabon, Ozick, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, Gary Shteyngart – taking the idea of Jewishness and multiculturalism into new arenas.
Jews, Germans, Memory
Author: Y. Michal Bodemann
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472105847
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Assesses the past, present, and future of German-Jewish relations in light of recent political charges and the opening up of historical resources
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472105847
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Assesses the past, present, and future of German-Jewish relations in light of recent political charges and the opening up of historical resources
Genre Fission
Author: Marleen S. Barr
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587292718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
What do Amsterdam prostitutes, NASA astronauts, cross-dressing texts, and Star Trek characters have in common? In Genre Fission, Marleen Barr wittily and eccentrically revitalizes cultural and literary theory by examining the points where such vastly different categories meet, converge, and reemerge as something new.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587292718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
What do Amsterdam prostitutes, NASA astronauts, cross-dressing texts, and Star Trek characters have in common? In Genre Fission, Marleen Barr wittily and eccentrically revitalizes cultural and literary theory by examining the points where such vastly different categories meet, converge, and reemerge as something new.
My Own Private Germany
Author: Eric L. Santner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend the rest of the nineteenth century in mental institutions. Once released, he published his Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903), a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God's private concubine. Freud's famous case study of Schreber elevated the Memoirs into the most important psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In light of Eric Santner's analysis, Schreber's text becomes legible as a sort of "nerve bible" of fin-de-siècle preoccupations and obsessions, an archive of the very phantasms that would, after the traumas of war, revolution, and the end of empire, coalesce into the core elements of National Socialist ideology. The crucial theoretical notion that allows Santner to pass from the "private" domain of psychotic disturbances to the "public" domain of the ideological and political genesis of Nazism is the "crisis of investiture." Schreber's breakdown was precipitated by a malfunction in the rites and procedures through which an individual is endowed with a new social status: his condition became acute just as he was named to a position of ultimate symbolic authority. The Memoirs suggest that we cross the threshold of modernity into a pervasive atmosphere of crisis and uncertainty when acts of symbolic investiture no longer usefully transform the subject's self understanding. At such a juncture, the performative force of these rites of institution may assume the shape of a demonic persecutor, some "other" who threatens our borders and our treasures. Challenging other political readings of Schreber, Santner denies that Schreber's delusional system--his own private Germany--actually prefigured the totalitarian solution to this defining structural crisis of modernity. Instead, Santner shows how this tragic figure succeeded in avoiding the totalitarian temptation by way of his own series of perverse identifications, above all with women and Jews.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend the rest of the nineteenth century in mental institutions. Once released, he published his Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903), a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God's private concubine. Freud's famous case study of Schreber elevated the Memoirs into the most important psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In light of Eric Santner's analysis, Schreber's text becomes legible as a sort of "nerve bible" of fin-de-siècle preoccupations and obsessions, an archive of the very phantasms that would, after the traumas of war, revolution, and the end of empire, coalesce into the core elements of National Socialist ideology. The crucial theoretical notion that allows Santner to pass from the "private" domain of psychotic disturbances to the "public" domain of the ideological and political genesis of Nazism is the "crisis of investiture." Schreber's breakdown was precipitated by a malfunction in the rites and procedures through which an individual is endowed with a new social status: his condition became acute just as he was named to a position of ultimate symbolic authority. The Memoirs suggest that we cross the threshold of modernity into a pervasive atmosphere of crisis and uncertainty when acts of symbolic investiture no longer usefully transform the subject's self understanding. At such a juncture, the performative force of these rites of institution may assume the shape of a demonic persecutor, some "other" who threatens our borders and our treasures. Challenging other political readings of Schreber, Santner denies that Schreber's delusional system--his own private Germany--actually prefigured the totalitarian solution to this defining structural crisis of modernity. Instead, Santner shows how this tragic figure succeeded in avoiding the totalitarian temptation by way of his own series of perverse identifications, above all with women and Jews.
Passing Illusions
Author: Kerry Wallach
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472123009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Weimar Germany (1919–33) was an era of equal rights for women and minorities, but also of growing antisemitism and hostility toward the Jewish population. This led some Jews to want to pass or be perceived as non-Jews; yet there were still occasions when it was beneficial to be openly Jewish. Being visible as a Jew often involved appearing simultaneously non-Jewish and Jewish. Passing Illusions examines the constructs of German-Jewish visibility during the Weimar Republic and explores the controversial aspects of this identity—and the complex reasons many decided to conceal or reveal themselves as Jewish. Focusing on racial stereotypes, Kerry Wallach outlines the key elements of visibility, invisibility, and the ways Jewishness was detected and presented through a broad selection of historical sources including periodicals, personal memoirs, and archival documents, as well as cultural texts including works of fiction, anecdotes, images, advertisements, performances, and films. Twenty black-and-white illustrations (photographs, works of art, cartoons, advertisements, film stills) complement the book’s analysis of visual culture.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472123009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Weimar Germany (1919–33) was an era of equal rights for women and minorities, but also of growing antisemitism and hostility toward the Jewish population. This led some Jews to want to pass or be perceived as non-Jews; yet there were still occasions when it was beneficial to be openly Jewish. Being visible as a Jew often involved appearing simultaneously non-Jewish and Jewish. Passing Illusions examines the constructs of German-Jewish visibility during the Weimar Republic and explores the controversial aspects of this identity—and the complex reasons many decided to conceal or reveal themselves as Jewish. Focusing on racial stereotypes, Kerry Wallach outlines the key elements of visibility, invisibility, and the ways Jewishness was detected and presented through a broad selection of historical sources including periodicals, personal memoirs, and archival documents, as well as cultural texts including works of fiction, anecdotes, images, advertisements, performances, and films. Twenty black-and-white illustrations (photographs, works of art, cartoons, advertisements, film stills) complement the book’s analysis of visual culture.
Jews and Other Differences
Author: Jonathan Boyarin
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816627509
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816627509
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description