Melancholy pride : nation, race, and gender in the German literature of cultural Zionism / Mark H. Gelber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelber, Mark H., 1951- author.

Series:

Conditio Judaica ; 23.

Conditio Judaica, 0941-5866 ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life.

Jews.

German literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

German literature.

Judaism and literature--Germany.

Judaism and literature.

Zionism--Germany--History.

Zionism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Max Niemeyer, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study focuses on the emergence of a modern Jewish national literature and culture within the parameters of Zionism in Vienna and Berlin at the turn of the last century. Prominent figures associated with early modern Zionism, including Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, and Martin Buber, were also writers and literary or cultural icons within the Central European, Germanic-Austrian cultural environment of the fin-de-siècle. More important, Cultural Zionism promoted young Jewish literary and artistic talent as part of its ideology of a modern Jewish Renaissance. A corpus of German-language Jewish-national poetry and literature, as well as mechanisms for its dissemination and reception, developed rapidly. Most of this literary and cultural production has been forgotten or suppressed. Productive, if often unlikely, partnerships between Jewish national poets and artists and Central European cultural figures and movements were forged in this context. Facets of Central European cultural life, which were somewhat oppositional to traditional Jewish culture were received, absorbed, or transformed within Cultural Zionism. For example, the relationship of German racialist thought and German-nationalist fraternity life to early Jewish-national expression is a largely unknown chapter of early Jewish-national cultural history. The same can be said for the impact of feminist, counter-culture, and bohemian circles in Berlin on Cultural Zionist personalities and their work.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction. The Parameters of German Cultural Zionism: The Possibility of a Jewish-National Literature in German?

Chapter One. The Jewish Renaissance in Vienna and Berlin: A Literature and Art for the Sake of Zion

Chapter Two. Satisfaktionsfähigkeit and Jewish Pride: The Literary and Cultural Expressions of Jewish Students and Fraternity Life at the Turn-of-the-Century

Chapter Three. Börries von Münchhausen and E.M. Lilien: The Genesis of Juda and its Zionist Reception

Chapter Four. The Rhetoric of Race and Jewish-National Cultural Politics: From Birnbaum and Buber to Brieger's René Richter

Chapter Five. Feminist-Zionist Expression: Ideology, Rhetoric, and Literature

Chapter Six. Eroticism and Masochism in Cultural Zionism: Else Lasker-Schiiler and Dolorosa

Chapter Seven. "Strangers at Thy Gates": Anti-Semitism, Philo-Zionism, and the Role of Non-Jews in Jewish-National Culture275

Conclusion. German Cultural Zionism, Jewish Difference, Modern Jewish Cultural Identity and National Creativity

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-302) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110956085

311095608X

OCLC:

913089245