German-Jewish Popular Culture Before the Holocaust - Kafka''s Kitsch

Informationen zum Autor David A. Brenner is Director of the Houston Teachers Institute and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Houston. Zusammenfassung Using modern social theory, David Brenner examines how German-Jewish identity was influenced by the production and consumption of popular culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Identifying (with) German-Jewish Popular Culture 1. Between High and Low, Laughter and Tears: Making Yiddish Theater "Respectable" in Turn-of-the-Century Jewish Berlin 2. "Schlemiel, Shlimazel": A Proto-Postcolonialist Satire of "Jews," "Blacks," and "Germans" 3. A German-Jewish Hermaphrodite—Or: What Sexology Contributed to B’nai B’rith 4. Franz's Folk(lore): Kafka’s Jewish Father-Complex 5. Pogrom in - Berlin? Working Through the Weimar Jewish Experience in Popular Fiction 6. After the "Schoah": Performing German-Jewish Symbiosis Today

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• Authors: David Brenner, David A. Brenner, David A. (Universitat Konstanz Brenner, Brenner David, Brenner David A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.2008
• EAN: 9780415463232
• ISBN: 978-0-415-46323-2
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series; Routledge Jewish Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, Cultural Studies, European History, Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, DRAMA / European / General, RELIGION / Judaism / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, Jewish Studies, Regional Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Regional / International studies, Performance Art, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, Social groups: religious groups and communities