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The City Without Jews : A Novel of Our Time
by Hugo Bettauer, Salomea Neumark Brainin (Translator)
Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 1926/1991.
Book written as a comic satire, but foreshadows the Holocaust.
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Paperback - 188 pages 1 ED edition (May 1997)
Bloch Pub Co; ISBN: 0819705942
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Jews, Germans, Memory : Reconstructions of Jewish Life in Germany
(Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
by Y. Michal Bodemann (Editor)
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Hardcover (April 1996)
Univ of Michigan Pr; ISBN: 0472105841
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How was it possible that a new, and sizeable, Jewish community developed after the Holocaust in Germany of all places? Jews, Germans, Memory undertakes to assess the past, present, and future of German-Jewish relations in light of recent political changes and the opening of historical sources. This welcome new volume investigates how the groundwork was laid for a new Jewish community in the postwar period, with different objectives by Jewish leaders and German politicians. Its contributors touch upon history, literature, the media, ethnicity, politics, and social movements and attempt to tackle the question of how Jews are socially constructed, and how the glorious German Jewish past and the Holocaust have been remembered in the course of recent decades. In recent years, German Jewry has seen fundamental transformations with the influx from Eastern Europe and a new leadership in the community: a new self-definition, even self-assurance and reappraisal in Israel and elsewhere has evolved. Historians, scholars of cultured studies, and those interested in debates on memory and ethnicity will all find something of interest in this diverse volume.
The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany
by Michael Brenner
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Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300077203 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.74 x 9.27 x 6.17
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Booknews, Inc. , November 1, 1996
Rather than assimilate into mainstream German society, says Brenner (modern Jewish history, Brandeis U.) many Jews after World War I became more aware of their Jewishness and dressed Jewish traditions in modern garb to create new forms in literature, music, fine arts, education, and scholarship. He documents how classics were translated, ceremonial artifacts displayed, synagogue liturgy arranged for concert audiences, and the Jewish past recalled in novels. Lightly illustrated. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title
Jewish Icons : Art and Society in Modern Europe
by Richard I. Cohen
Elegant and insightful discussion of Jews in artistic imagery.
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Hardcover - 382 pages (April 1998)
Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520205456 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.47 x 10.35 x 7.34
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With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. In these images and objects that reflect, refract, and also shape daily experience, he finds new and illuminating insights into Jewish life in the modern period. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. In one such manifestation, orthodox Jewry made icons of popular tabbis, creating images that helped to bridge the sacred and the secular. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the study and collecting of Jewish art became a legitimate and even passionate pursuit, and signaled the entry of Jews into the art world as painters, collectors, and dealers. Cohen's exploration of early Jewish exhibitions, museums, and museology opens a new window on the relationship of art to Jewish culture and society.
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A reader from Seattle, WA , March 23, 1999
This book is remarkable for its fluidity and erudition. This book occupies a much-ignored aspect of early modern Jewish culture: images. The complex relationship between the images presented by art and historical reality is addressed in this complex, subtle, and beautifully-written book.
The Golden Tradition : Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe
(Modern Jewish History Series)
by Lucy S. Dawidowicz (Editor)
Classic compendium of essays, articles and extracts on many facets of the East European Jewish experience.
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Paperback (September 1996)
Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0815604238 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.10 x 7.98 x 5.50
by Umberto Eco, William Weaver (Translator), John Radziewicz (Editor)
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Paperback Reprint edition (May 1990)
Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0156913216 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.76 x 7.95 x 5.34
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A reader from Kansas City, Mo., Bka, Kowtown , March 24, 1999
Is ficton/fantasy becoming fact or is fact becoming fiction?
With the recent releases of "The Truman Show", "Ed TV" and the like, and Neal Gabler's "Life the Movie" book--and politics in the bedroom and vice-versa, it would not hurt one iota to read and reread semiotician Umberto Eco's "Tales in Hyperreality". Gabler nothwithstanding, there are very few of our thinkers who forcasted that everyday life was fodder for fiction--indeed we use fiction to escape everyday life--and that our fiction should be ultra-real, like The Star Wars/ Star Trek entertainment empires.
Eco's background in semiotics perhaps may have made certain passages too heavy-handed for the average joe schmoe like me, but I figure that if I can do it, so can you (underlying what Eco is delineating, anyway, is how we millenium-bound inhabitants in the free capitalist world are so easily bored, and so lazy that we prefer the easy way to exciting entertainment--why, for example, would we go to the hassle of travelling to Washington, DC, to the White House, to see the Oval Office when there's a replica of one somewhere close?). Anyway, I read the book once with difficulty, then I began to get a clearer picture with subsesequent readings. There are hundreds of websites that address the Fantasy is Reality theme, but you know what? This is the work that the current post-modern, post-structuralist theory of the theme has been developed. Many of the websites have that "I am Nostrodamus" feel to them, if you know what I mean. Eco's style, however, is personable and witty, particulary in passages he reminesces about his hometown and some of the old traditions. Also, for those of you who ponder trying to flesh out a Madison Ave. photocopy, read this book. It will have you questioning things for years to come.
A reader , June 28, 1997
Eco doing what Eco does best.
Umberto Eco, profound social critic and novelist, does that voodoo that he does so well once again.
Don't let the title fool you. This is not the science fiction novel one might expect it to be. Rather, this collection of critical essays illucidates the theory underlying everyday life for us all.
Sometimes a touch on the scholarly side, in both language and focus. But I recommend wholeheartedly wading through the drier passages; I trust you'll find it's worth it.
A reader , August 24, 1996
the renaissance as the return of post-modernity. an entertaining collection of evocative essays pouring scorn on the trash of life today. it happened long ago and in a more reflective less self-conscious fashion. primes one to see beyond the blinkered limits of these television driven times. made a clearer reading of 'count of monte christo' possible...
Stranger in Our Midst : Images of the Jew in Polish Literature
by Harold B. Segel (Editor)
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Paperback - 402 pages (July 1996)
Cornell Univ Pr; ISBN: 080148104X ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.95 x 9.26 x 6.15
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Jews Germany Memory : A Contemporary Portrait
by Edward Serotta
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Hardcover - 160 pages (December 1996)
Distributed Art Publishers; ISBN: 3875846087 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.68 x 11.40 x 9.62
Tenement Songs : The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants
by Mark Slobin
The roots of klezmer.
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Paperback (December 1995)
Univ of Illinois Pr (Txt); ISBN: 025206562X ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.74 x 8.99 x 5.97
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Tenement Songs : The Popular Music of Jewish Immigrants
by Mark Slobin
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Audio Cassette (March 1982)
Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0252009622
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Bondage to the Dead : Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust
(Modern Jewish History)
by Michael C. Steinlauf
ESSENTIAL READING FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN POLAND AND ITS JEWS.
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Paperback (March 1997)
Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0815604033 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.63 x 8.49 x 5.57
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From Kirkus Reviews , December 15, 1996
A very well researched and nuanced study of postwar Poland's efforts, first to deny, then to begin to deal with the complex reality of the Holocaust and particularly the fact that Auschwitz and all the other major death camps were located on Polish soil. In an angry outburst, former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir once claimed that Poles ``imbibe anti-Semitism with their mother's milk.'' Largely by probing Polish sources, Steinlauf, a senior research fellow at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, uncovers a far more complex, variegated relationship between Polish Jews and Gentiles before, during, and after the Holocaust. He doesn't scant the longstanding, deep Polish stereotype of the Jew as ``the spoiler, the avenger, the foe of everything Polish.'' Yet he also notes how some Poles, even while manifesting anti-Semitic attitudes, were so appalled by the Nazi juggernaut of death that they saved or otherwise assisted Jews. Unfortunately, even more betrayed Jews; most, however, remained distraught bystanders, paralyzed by the Germans' murder of over two million of their non-Jewish fellow citizens. The immediate post- Holocaust period witnessed pogroms in Kielce and elsewhere during which some 2,000 returning Jewish survivors were murdered. In the nearly half-century of Communist rule that followed, there were several violent anti-Semitic outbreaks, and purges in the Polish Communist Party. Steinlauf traces the slow, uneven, and still very incomplete emergence of a new, more open and sympathetic attitude toward the Holocaust and the rich, if often troubled, legacy of Polish Jewish history, as well as toward contemporary Jewish sensibilities. Steinlauf clearly links this change to the emergence of the Solidarity movement and the fall of Communism, though it is still being bitterly fought by Polish nationalists both within and outside of the Catholic Church. Steinlauf's work is crisply written and refreshingly succinct. This very fine study of intellectual, cultural, and ethnic history deserves broad exposure. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title