German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka's kitsch

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Summary

Using modern social theory, David Brenner examines how German-Jewish identity was influenced by the production and consumption of popular culture.

Please wait while the item is added to your bag...

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction: Identifying (with) German-Jewish popular culture	p. 1
Between high and low, laughter and tears: making Yiddish theater "respectable" in turn-of-the-century Jewish Berlin	p. 12
"Schlemiel, Shlimazel": a proto-postcolonialist satire of "Jews," "Blacks," and "Germans"	p. 29
A German-Jewish hermaphrodite: or what sexology contributed to B'nai B'rith	p. 41
Franz's folk(lore): Kafka's Jewish father complex	p. 50
Pogrom in - Berlin? Working through the Weimar Jewish experience in popular fiction	p. 63
After the "Schoah": performing German-Jewish symbiosis today	p. 78
Notes	p. 88
Bibliography	p. 105
Index	p. 116
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.