Between redemption and doom
Subtitle: the strains of German-Jewish modernism
By: Noah Isenberg.
Series: Texts and contexts (Unnumbered)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lincoln, Neb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation; Zweig, Arnold, 1887-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation; Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation; Golem (Motion picture); Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life; German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; Jews in literature; Judaism and literature -- Germany; Germany -- Civilization -- 20th century; Germany -- Ethnic relations
Description: Between Redemption and Doom is a revelatory exploration of the evolution of German-Jewish modernism. Through an examination of selected works in literature, theory, and film, Noah Isenberg investigates the ways in which Jewish identity was represented in German culture from the eve of the First World War through the rise of National Socialism.

He argues that various responses to modernity - particularly to its social, cultural, and aesthetic currents - converge around the discourse on community: its renaissance, its crisis, and its dissolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-224) and index.