The other Jewish question: identifying the Jew and making sense of modernity
Introduction: toward a physiognomic epidemiology of the fetishized Jew -- Feminization and the problem of Jewish persistence -- Tailing the suspect, or the braiding of gender and ethnic difference -- From mohels to Mein Kampf: syphilis and the construction of Jewish identification -- Circumcision an...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York, NY
Fordham Univ. Press
2011
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| In: | Year: 2011 |
| Reviews: | The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity, Jay Geller (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011), xiv + 510 pp., hardcover 110.00, paperback 40.00 (2013) (Krondorfer, Björn, 1959 -)
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| Edition: | 1. ed. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
German language area
/ Judaism
/ Ethnic identity
/ Antisemitism
B Jews (Motif) / Literature / German language / History 1850-1950 |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethnic identity
B Literature B Jews B Jews Identity B Antisemitism History B Judaism B Civilization, Modern B German language area B Antisemitism B History B German language |
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Book review (H-Net) Table of Contents |
| Summary: | Introduction: toward a physiognomic epidemiology of the fetishized Jew -- Feminization and the problem of Jewish persistence -- Tailing the suspect, or the braiding of gender and ethnic difference -- From mohels to Mein Kampf: syphilis and the construction of Jewish identification -- Circumcision and a Jewish woman's identification: Rahel Levin Varnhagen's failed assimilation -- Going to "alimentary" school: brotstudium, Ludwig feuerbach, and the dietetics of antisemitism -- From rags to risches: on Marx's other Jewish question -- A future without Jews: Max Nordau's pre-Zionist answer to the other Jewish question -- President Schreber and the memoirs of a wandering Jew(ess) -- Walter Benjamin reproducing the scent of the messianic |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben |
| Physical Description: | XIV, 510 S., Ill. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8232-3362-5 978-0-8232-3361-8 |
