The anti-journalist : Karl Kraus and Jewish self-fashioning in fin-de-siecle Europe / Paul Reitter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reitter, Paul.

Series:

Studies in German-Jewish Cultural Histor

Studies in German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936--Political and social views.

Kraus, Karl.

Jews--Identity--Europe--History--19th century.

Jews.

Antisemitism in the press--Europe--History--19th century.

Antisemitism in the press.

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

German literature.

Jewish press--Europe--History--19th century.

Jewish press.

Jewish journalists--Europe--History--19th century.

Jewish journalists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which brought him a reputation as the quintessential self-hating Jew. The Anti-Journalist overturns this view with unprecedented force and sophistication, showing how Kraus's criticisms form the center of a radical model of German-Jewish self-fashioning, and how that model developed in concert with Kraus's modernist journalistic styl

Contents:

All that is solid melts into ink

German Jews and the writing of modern life

Karl Kraus and the Jewish self-hatred question

Mirror-man

Messianic journalism? Benjamin and Scholem read Die Fackel

Conclusion: The afterlife of anti-journalism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-247) and index.

ISBN:

9786611966294

9781281966292

1281966290

9780226709727

0226709728

OCLC:

309871181