Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity / Jonathan M. Hess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hess, Jonathan M., 1965-

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

German literature.

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

German fiction.

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

Jewish fiction.

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.

Jews.

Group identity in literature.

Jews in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book opens our eyes to the vast corpus of popular fiction written by Jews for Jews in nineteenth-century Germany, discovering a tradition of Jewish literature that is in many ways still with us today.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; 1. Under the Sword of the Spanish Inquisition: The Sephardic Legacy and the Making of Middlebrow Classics; 2. Leopold Kompert and the Pleasures of Nostalgia: Ghetto Fiction and the Creation of a Usable Past; 3. Middlebrow Culture in Pursuit of Romance: Love, Fiction, and the Virtues of Marrying In; 4. Middlebrow Fiction and the Making of Modern Orthodoxy; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804774239

0804774234

OCLC:

645099671