| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-249) and index. |
| Contents |
When rabbis became novelists : the emergence of Jewish literature in nineteenth-century Germany -- Under the sword of the Spanish inquisition : the Sephardic legacy and the making of middlebrow classics -- Leopold Kompert and the pleasures of nostalgia : ghetto fiction and the creation of a usable past -- Middlebrow culture in pursuit of romance : love, fiction and the virtues of marrying in -- Middlebrow fiction and the making of modern orthodoxy. |
| Summary |
This work offers a comprehensive investigation of Jews writing in German, which sought to navigate between tradition and modernity, between Jewish history and the German present, and between the fading walls of the ghetto and the promise of a new identity as members of a German bourgeoisie. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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German literature -- Jewish authors. |
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German fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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German fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Jewish fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Jewish fiction. |
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Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Jews. |
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Germany. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Group identity in literature.
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Group identity in literature. |
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Jews in literature.
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Jews in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hess, Jonathan M., 1965- Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804761222 (DLC) 2009030703 (OCoLC)428436847 |
| ISBN |
9780804774239 (electronic book) |
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0804774234 (electronic book) |
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9780804761222 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804761221 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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