German-Jewish popular culture before the Holocaust
Subtitle: Kafka's kitsch
By: David A. Brenner.
Series: Routledge Jewish studies series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415463232; 9780203894033
Subjects: Jews in popular culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Popular culture -- Germany
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: identifying (with) German-Jewish popular culture; title: Between high and low, laughter and tears: making Yiddish theater "respectable" in turn-of-the-century Jewish Berlin; title: Schlemiel, shlimazel: a proto-postcolonialist satire of Jews, blacks, and Germans; title: A German-Jewish hermaphrodite, or: what sexology contributed to B'nai Brith; title: Franz's folk(lore): Kafka's Jewish father-complex; title: Pogrom in; title: Berlin?: working through the Weimar Jewish experience in popular fiction; title: After the Schoah: performing German-Jewish symbiosis today.