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

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

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