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

ISBN-13: 9781138780088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 128 str.

David A. Brenner

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

David A. Brenner is Director of the Houston Teachers Institute and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Houston.