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Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity (Hardcover)
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Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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For generations of German-speaking Jews, the works of Goethe and
Schiller epitomized the world of European high culture, a realm
that Jews actively participated in as both readers and consumers.
Yet from the 1830s on, Jews writing in German also produced a vast
corpus of popular fiction that was explicitly Jewish in content,
audience, and function. "Middlebrow Literature and the Making of
German-Jewish Identity" offers the first comprehensive
investigation in English of this literature, 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. This study examines the ways in which popular fiction
assumed an unprecedented role in shaping Jewish identity during
this period. It locates in nineteenth-century Germany a defining
moment of the modern Jewish experience and the beginnings of a
tradition of Jewish belles lettres that is in many ways still with
us today.
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