Bambi's Jewish roots and other essays on German-Jewish culture
By: Paul Reitter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781441166852
Subjects: Jewish authors; Jews; Intellectual life; German literature; History and criticism; Ethnic relations; Jews in literature; Antisemitism; History
Description: "Paul Reitter's scholarship on German-Jewish culture has won acclaim in both specialized journals and forums like the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Bookforum, and the TLS, which named his study of Karl Kraus one of the best books of 2008. Writing for such publications as The Nation, Harper's Magazine, and the Jewish Review of Books, Reitter has also produced essays that address topics related to his expertise but written for a wider audience, earning a reputation for being a witty, erudite, and deeply illuminating critic in the popular intellectual arena. Bambi's Jewish Roots brings together the best of his essayistic work, which take on an array of figures and concerns, from the contradictions in Heinrich Heine's self-understanding to the echoes of Zionism in Felix Salten's novel Bambi"--

"An illuminating account of the life and demise of German Jewry"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Self-Reflections: 1. Story of a friendship gone bad: Heinrich Heine on Ludwig Börne; title: 2. Irrational Man: Gershom Scholem's decisve years; title: 3. The Text Life of Dreams: Arthur Schnitzler's nighttime diaries; title: II. Legendary Lives: 4. Misreading Kafka; title: 5. The Wittgensteins and the Perils of Family Biography; title: 6. Dust-to-Dust Song: Nelly Sachs's life; title: 7. Sadness in the Mountains: Freud and the upside of transience; title: 8. The Middle Way of Erich Fromm III. Beyond the Canon: 9. Bambi's Jewish Roots; title: 10. Appraising the Collector: ... Stefan Zweig.; title: 11. Fear and Self-Loathing in fin-de-siecle Vienna: Otto Weininger's Sex and character; title: IV. Renderings 12. That Other Metamorphosis: translating Kafka; title: 13. The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon and the task of the retranslator; title: 14. The poetics and politics of Hugo Hoffmannsthal; title: V. Studying German Jewry : 15. Kafka's identity politics; title: 16. Whose Jewish: theorizing German-Jewish culture; title: 17. Rabbis making role models: German-Jewish middlebrow literature; title: 18. Schnitzler's Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go?; title: 19. Rereading Freud's Moses (Again); title: 20. Auerbach's Exile and the motion of Mimesis; title: VI. The End: 21. Hitler Viennese Waltz; title: 22. The Fuhrer Furor 23. Holocaust Imponderables; title: 24. Racism: Coded as Culture?; title: 25. Gender unbender: Pierre Bourdieu and the enigmatic durability of bad values; title: 26. The paradoxes of Holocaust literature: a guide for the darkly perplexed.