Bambi's Jewish roots and other essays on German-Jewish culture / Paul Reitter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reitter, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--History--1800-1933.

Jews.

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

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.

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

German literature.

Jews in literature.

Antisemitism--Germany--History.

Antisemitism.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2020.

Summary:

"Paul Reitter's scholarship on German-Jewish culture has won acclaim in both specialized journals and forums like the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Bookforum, and the TLS, which named his study of Karl Kraus one of the best books of 2008. Writing for such publications as The Nation, Harper's Magazine, and the Jewish Review of Books, Reitter has also produced essays that address topics related to his expertise but written for a wider audience, earning a reputation for being a witty, erudite, and deeply illuminating critic in the popular intellectual arena. Bambi's Jewish Roots brings together the best of his essayistic work, which take on an array of figures and concerns, from the contradictions in Heinrich Heine's self-understanding to the echoes of Zionism in Felix Salten's novel Bambi"-- Provided by publisher.

"An illuminating account of the life and demise of German Jewry"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Part one: Self-Reflections; Chapter 1 The Story of a Friendship Gone Bad: Heinrich Heine on Ludwig Berne; Chapter 2 Irrational Man: Gershom Sholem's Decisive Years; Chapter 3 The Text Life of Dreams: Arthur Schnitzler's Nighttime Diaries; Part two: Legendary Lives; Chapter 4 Misreading Kafka; Chapter 5 The Wittgensteins and the Perils of Family Biography; I; II; Chapter 6 Dust-to-Dust Song: Nelly Sachs's Life; Chapter 7 Sadness in the Mountains: Freud and the Upside of Transience; Chapter 8 The Middle Way of Erich Fromm.

17. Rabbis Making Role Models: German-Jewish Middlebrow Literature; 18. Schnitzler's Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go?; 19. Rereading Freud's Moses (Again); 20. Erich Auerbachs Exile and the Motion of Mimesis; Part 6. The End; 21. Hitler's Viennese Waltz; 22. The Fuhrer Furor; 23. Holocaust Imponderables; 24. Racism: Coded as Culture?; 25. Gender Unbender: Pierre Bourdieu and the Enigmatic Durability of Bad Values; 26. The Paradoxes of Holocaust Literature: A Guide for the Darkly Perplexed; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-5013-1510-2

1-4411-9334-0

1-4411-9806-7

OCLC:

1201426443