Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema

The burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The chapters collected in this volume deploy new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to understanding the significant involvement of German Jews in Weimar cinema. Reflecting upon different conceptions of Jewishness - as religion, ethnicity, social role, cultural code, or text - these studies offer a wide-ranging exploration of an often overlooked aspect of German film history.

About the author

Barbara Hales is a Professor of History and Humanities at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Her publications focus on film history of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. She is the author of Black Magic Woman: Gender and the Occult in Weimar Germany (Peter Lang, 2021). Along with Mihaela Petrescu and Valerie Weinstein, she also co-edited a volume entitled Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936 (Camden House, 2016). Dr. Hales is President of the Center for Medicine After the Holocaust.

Valerie Weinstein is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Niehoff Professor in Film and Media Studies, and affiliate faculty in German Studies and Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany (Indiana University Press, 2019) and numerous articles on Weimar and Nazi cinema. She is co-editor, with Barbara Hales and Mihaela Petrescu, of Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema 1928-1936 (Camden House, 2016).

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Weinstein Hales, Barbara Weinstein Hales Hales
• Assisted by: Barbara Hales (Editor), Valerie Weinstein (Editor), Weinstein Valerie (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2023
• EAN: 9781800739482
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-948-2
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Film Europa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Cultural Studies, Germany, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Social and cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Relating to Jewish people and groups, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, Social groups: religious groups and communities, 1918–1933 (period of the Weimar Republic)