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Bambi's Jewish roots and other essays on German-Jewish culture

Title
Bambi's Jewish roots and other essays on German-Jewish culture / Paul Reitter.
Author
Reitter, Paul.
Publication
  • New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, [2015]
  • ©2015
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Summary
  • "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"--
Subject
  • Jews > Germany > History > 1800-1933
  • Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > 19th century
  • Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century
  • German literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism
  • Jews in literature
  • Antisemitism > Germany > History
  • LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
  • HISTORY / Europe / Germany
  • Germany > Ethnic relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface I. Self-Reflections 1. Total Polemic 2. Irrational Man 3. The Text Life of Dreams II. Legendary Lives 4. Misreading Kafka 5. The Wittgensteins and the Perils of Family Biography 6. Dust-to-Dust Song 7. Sadness in the Mountains III. Beyond the Canon 8. Bambi's Jewish Roots 9. Appraising the Collector 10. The Middle Way of Erich Fromm 11. Fear and Self-Loathing in fin-de-siecle Vienna IV. Renderings 12. That Other Metamorphosis 13. The Task of the Retranslator 14. Storm and Stress V. Studying German Jewry15. Kafka's Identity Politics 16. Whose Jewish 17. Role Models 18. Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go? 19. Rereading Freud's Moses Again 20. Auerbach's Exile VI. The End 21. Hitler Viennese Waltz 22. The Fuhrer Furor 23. Holocaust Imponderables 24. Racism: Coded as Culture Bibliography Index.
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*PXS 15-4358
ISBN
  • 9781441166852
  • 1441166858
LCCN
2014045910
OCLC
2014045910
Author
Reitter, Paul.
Title
Bambi's Jewish roots and other essays on German-Jewish culture / Paul Reitter.
Publisher
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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