Jews in an illusion of paradise. Volume 2, Falling out of place and into history : dust and ashes / by Norman Simms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simms, Norman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (537 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

These further six chapters of Jews in an Illusion of Paradise now focus on individual exemplary figures and clusters of poets, dramatists, critics, journalists, art historians-Jews whose achievements were once celebrated, but now are almost all but forgotten, not because of changes in aesthetic taste or style but because of social, political and other ideological issues. The book continues to examine the clash between their conscious and unconscious self-presentation as Jews in a culture that wilfully or inadvertently misunderstood or rejected this aspect of "otherness" the men and women represented from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Whereas the first volume concentrated on the themes, images and rhetorical motifs of this awkward status of Jewish intellectuals and artists, here the ambiguous personalities and repressed anxieties of the exemplary figures are stressed. For millennia, Jews were considered outside of normal history, passive victims of persecution; then suddenly, with Emancipation, they fell into history and out of their mythical place in the scheme of things. Everything seemed to crumble into dust and ashes.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

An Epilogue in Nineteen Fragments

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 15, 2018).

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ISBN:

1-5275-0743-2

OCLC:

1100878429