By David A. Brenner

ISBN-10: 0415463238

ISBN-13: 9780415463232

ISBN-10: 1138780081

ISBN-13: 9781138780088

David A. Brenner examines how Jews in important Europe built one of many first "ethnic" or "minority" cultures in modernity. now not completely "German" or "Jewish," the reports of German-speaking Jewry within the many years ahead of the 3rd Reich and the Holocaust have been additionally negotiated in encounters with pop culture, rather the radical, the drama and mass media.


Despite fresh scholarship, the misperception persists that Jewish Germans have been bent on assimilation. even if topic to compulsion, they didn't turn into exclusively "German," less "European." but their habit and values have been under no circumstances solely "Jewish," because the Nazis or different anti-Semites may have it. relatively, the German Jews accomplished a weird synthesis among 1890 and 1933, constructing a tradition that was once not just "middle-class" but additionally "ethnic." particularly, they reinvented Judaic traditions in terms of a hybridized tradition.


Based on study in German, Israeli and American records, German-Jewish pop culture earlier than the Holocaust addresses the various genres within which a particularly German-Jewish identification was once played, from the Yiddish theatre and Zionist humour all of the technique to sensationalist memoirs and Kafka’s personal kitsch. This middle-class ethnic id encompassed and went past non secular confession and id politics. In focusing mostly on German-Jewish pop culture, this groundbreaking ebook introduces the beginnings of "ethnicity" as we all know it and reside it today.

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