Gertrud Kolmar's Prose

Barbara C Frantz Ph D

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Jewish History | nr. 2
• This study is a close reading of two texts by the German poetess Gertrud Kolmar, Eine jüdische Mutter and Susanna . It analyzes the historical, sociol... Lees meer

Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature

John D Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Jewish History | nr. 5
• It is commonly held that medieval Christians viewed medieval Jews in exclusively negative terms. This is certainly the dominant opinion in much twenti... Lees meer

Mendelssohn to Mendelsohn

Cyril Reade

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Jewish History | nr. 8
• This book takes a fresh look at the history of the Jews in Berlin using signficant examples of the rich visual legacy of the period. It begins by exam... Lees meer

German Literature between Faiths

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in German Jewish History | nr. 6
• Religion is a central concern of German literature in all centuries, and the canon looks different when this perspective is acknowledged. For example,... Lees meer

Judaism in the Works of Beer-Hofmann and Feuchtwanger

Sarah Fraiman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Jewish History | nr. 3
• Unlike most of their contemporary German Jewish writers, Richard Beer-Hofmann (born in Vienna in 1866) and Lion Feuchtwanger (born in Bavaria in 1884)... Lees meer

Max Nordau's «Fin-De-Siècle» Romance of Race

Melanie a Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Jewish History | nr. 4
• Max Nordau (1849-1923) is the author of Degeneration and a founding father of Zionism. This Hungarian-born physician wrote fiction in which romantic a... Lees meer

The Jewish Ethic and the Spirit of Socialism

Adam Weisberger

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in German Jewish History | nr. 1
• The Jewish Ethic and the Spirit of Socialism is an investigation into the appeal of socialist politics to alienated bourgeois German Jews during the W... Lees meer