Bambi's Jewish Roots and Other Essays on German-Jewish Culture

ISBN-13: 9781441166852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 296 str.

Paul Reitter

Opis

Paul Reitter has won acclaim as both a scholar and a public critic for his writing on German Jewish culture in the twentieth century. Bambi's Jewish Roots brings together the best of Reitter's essayistic work, exploring the lives of well-known figures and revealing surprising new perspectives. These include how Felix Salten's Zionist commitments manifest themselves in his most famous work, the novel Bambi; what Gershom Scholem's diaries tell us about his development as a thinker and person; why German-Jewish writers hated Stefan Zweig so passionately; where myth-busting books about Franz Kafka have indulged in myth-building; how Freud's Moses and Monotheism offers a theory of Jewish self-hatred more than an explanation of anti-Semitism; and why Heinrich Heine felt aburning need to distance himself from his fellow liberal Jewish critic Ludwig Borne.The works collected here, many of which were originally published in forums such as the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Harper's Magazine, and the Jewish Review of Books, have earned Reitter his reputation as a witty, erudite, and deeply illuminating critic.

Recenzje

Reitter has established himself as a leading authority on German-Jewish relations between the wars. Choice (Praise for ON THE ORIGINS OF JEWISH SELF-HATRED)

Spis treści

Preface I. Self-Reflections 1. The Story of a Friendship Gone Bad: Heinrich Heine on Ludwig Börne 2. Irrational Man: Gershom Sholem's Decisive Years 3. The Text Life of Dreams: Arthur Schnitzler's Nighttime Diaries II. Legendary Lives 4. Misreading Kafka 5. The Wittgensteins and the Perils of Family Biography 6. Dust-to-Dust Song: Nelly Sachs's Life 7. Sadness in the Mountains: Freud and the Upside of Transience 8. The Middle Way of Erich Fromm III. Beyond the Canon 9. Bambi's Jewish Roots 10. Appraising the Collector: The Life and Work of Stefan Zweig 11. Fear and Self-Loathing in fin-de-siecle Vienna: Otto Weininger's Sex and Character IV. Renderings 12. That Other Metamorphosis: Translating Kafka 13. The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon and the Task of the Retranslator 14. The Poetics and Politics of Hugo von Hofmannsthal V. Studying German Jewry 15. Kafka's Identity Politics 16. Whose Jewish: Theorizing German-Jewish Culture 17. Rabbis Making Role Models: German-Jewish Middlebrow Literature 18. Schnitzler's Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go? 19. Rereading Freud's Moses Again 20. Erich Auerbach's Exile and the Motion of Mimesis VI. The End 21. Hitler Viennese Waltz 22. The Führer Furor 23. Holocaust Imponderables 24. Racism: Coded as Culture 25. Gender Unbender: Pierre Bourdieu and the Enigmatic Durability of Bad Values 26. The Paradoxes of Holocaust Literature: A Guide for the Darkly Perplexed Acknowledgements BibliographyIndex

O autorze

Paul Reitter is Professor in German Languages and Literatures and Director of the Humanities Institute at Ohio State University, USA. The author of The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (2008), and On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred (2012), he has contributed essays and reviews to Harper's Magazine and The Nation, and collaborated with Jonathan Franzen on The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus (2013). He recently co-edited Anti-Education, a new translation of Nietzsche's lectures on the German educational system, and The Rise of the Modern University, an anthology of sources having to do with the mission of the research university.