Jewish pasts German fictions : history, memory, and minority culture in Germany, 1824-1955 / Jonathan Skolnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skolnik, Jonathan, 1967- author.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews in literature.

Jewish historical fiction, German--History and criticism.

Jewish historical fiction, German.

German fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

German fiction.

German--20th century--History and criticism.

German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing.What did it imply for a minority to imagine its history in the majority language? Skolnik makes the case that the answer lies in the creation of a German-Jewish minority culture in which historical fiction

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Series Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Chronology of German-Jewish Historical Fiction; Introduction: Jewish Cultural Memory and the German Historical Novel; 1. Jewish History Under the Sign of Secularization: Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza (1837); 2. "Who learns history from Heine?" Wissenschaft des Judentums and Heinrich Heine's Der Rabbi von Bacherach (1840); 3. Minority Culture in the Age of the Nation: Jewish Historical Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Germany; Phöbus Philippson's Die Marannen (1837); Ludwig Philippson's Jakob Tirado (1867)

Markus Lehmann's Die Familie y Aguilar (1873)Hermann Reckendorf's Die Geheimnisse der Juden (1856-57); Alfred Nossig's Abarbanel: Das Drama eines Volkes (1906); 4. German Modernism and Jewish Memory: Else Lasker-Schüler's Der Wunderrabbiner von Barcelona (1921); 5. "Where books are burned . . .": Jewish Memories of inquisition and Expulsion in Nazi Germany and in Exile; Hermann Sinsheimer's Maria Nunnez (1934); Hermann Kesten's Ferdinand und Isabella (1936); Ernst Sommer's Botschaft aus Granada (1937); Epilogue: Post-Holocaust Echoes; Reference Matter; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804790598

0804790590

OCLC:

870950658