Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity
By: Jonathan M. Hess.
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture; Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804761222
Subjects: German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; German fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Jewish fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Group identity in literature; Jews in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: When rabbis became novelists : the emergence of Jewish literature in nineteenth-century Germany; title: Under the sword of the Spanish inquisition : the Sephardic legacy and the making of middlebrow classics; title: Leopold Kompert and the pleasures of nostalgia : ghetto fiction and the creation of a usable past; title: Middlebrow culture in pursuit of romance : love, fiction and the virtues of marrying in; title: Middlebrow fiction and the making of modern orthodoxy.