Jewish Pasts, German Fictions: History, Memory, and Minority Culture in Germany,

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Jewish Pasts, German Fictions by Jonathan Skolnik This is a study of German historical novels about Jewish history from the 1800s through the Holocaust. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing.What did it imply for a minority to imagine its history in the majority language? Skolnik makes the case that the answer lies in the creation of a German-Jewish minority culture in which historical fiction played a central role. After Hitlers rise to power in 1933, Jewish writers and artists, both in Nazi Germany and in exile, employed images from the Sephardic past to grapple with the nature of fascism, the predicament of exile, and the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust. The book goes on to show that this past not only helped Jews to make sense of the nonsense, but served also as a window into the hopes for integration and fears about assimilation that preoccupied German-Jewish writers throughout most of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, Skolnik positions the Jewish embrace of German culture not as an act of assimilation but rather a reinvention of Jewish identity and historical memory. Author Biography Jonathan Skolnik is Associate Professor of German at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is also on the faculty in Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and in History. Review "Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is a first-rate piece of scholarship that makes a crucial and original contribution to the fields of German-Jewish history, Jewish literature, and both Jewish Studies and literary studies more generally. Skolnik offers the first comprehensive discussion in English - or any other language - of the pivotal role that historical fiction played in German-Jewish culture from the 1830s well into the postwar period." - Jonathan Hess, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Long Description Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing.What did it imply for a minority to imagine its history in the majority language? Skolnik makes the case that the answer lies in the creation of a German-Jewish minority culture in which historical fiction played a central role. After Hitlers rise to power in 1933, Jewish writers and artists, both in Nazi Germany and in exile, employed images from the Sephardic past to grapple with the nature of fascism, the predicament of exile, and the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust. The book goes on to show that this past not only helped Jews to make sense of the nonsense, but served also as a window into the hopes for integration and fears about assimilation that preoccupied German-Jewish writers throughout most of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, Skolnik positions the Jewish embrace of German culture not as an act of assimilation but rather a reinvention of Jewish identity and historical memory. Review Quote "Throughout Jewish Pasts, German Fictions , Skolnik evinces an impressive command not only of the works he analyzes, but also of the different historical and literary contexts - spanning well more than a century - out of which these works emerged and in which they intervened. His sustained close readings of two texts that vie for the right to be called the first work of German-Jewish historical fiction, Auerbachs Spinoza and Heines Der Rabbi von Bacherach , as well as his careful analysis of Lasker-Sch Details ISBN0804786070 Author Jonathan Skolnik Short Title JEWISH PASTS GERMAN FICTIONS Pages 280 Publisher Stanford University Press Language English ISBN-10 0804786070 ISBN-13 9780804786072 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2014 Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle History, Memory, and Minority Culture in Germany, 1824-1955 Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2014-03-19 AU Release Date 2014-03-19 NZ Release Date 2014-03-19 US Release Date 2014-03-19 Series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Publication Date 2014-03-19 Alternative 9780804790598 DEWEY 833.009/35203924 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Illustrations 17 illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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