Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (839 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300068247 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 898 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Entries include an account of the Crusades in 1076, a treatment of Jewish mysticism in the Renaissance, a 17th-century memoir by a woman, the description of a meeting between Heinrich Heine and Karl Marx in 1843 and discussions of works by such luminaries as Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, Joseph Roth, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti, Hermann Broch, Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno and Peter Weiss.. Many essays focus on significant social and political events that affected the relationship between Germans and Jews: others concentrates on a particular genre, author, group of writers, cultural debate, or literary movement. This work provides a history of Jewish writing and thought in the German-speaking world. The contributors view German-Jewish literature as a historical and cultural phenomenon from a wide array of critical perspectives. Written by 118 scholars in the fiel
The editors highlight children's literature and writing by women, and contemporary literature is also included as an important element in the ongoing relationship. of Minnesota) present short essays that give chronological snapshots of the Jewish German relationship from 1096 to 1996. They include culture, history, literature, religion, and an anthropology of the relationship. They discuss Jewishness and Germanness without defining the limits of the terms, allowing for the widest possible scope to the selections (e.g., Yiddish and Hebrew literature as well as Kafka). This invaluable companion can be used as a reference tool or read as an extended scholarly work. From Library Journal Editors Gilman (German and Jewish studies, Univ. . Mendelssohn, Heine, Herzl, Buber, Arendt, and Benjamin are some of the figures that appear as important guideposts. Essential for large public and acade
"I wish I was your beer" according to flapping in traumatized laughter puddle. Wagner was understood: characters that seemed Jewish to audiences in Europe during Nietzsche's lifetime had the kind of petty intelligence that Wagner criticized when Wagner wrote about Jews. I keep writing about stupid things I've done. A week ago I went to a bar in Saint Paul, Minnesota and started drinking a draft beer called Angry Planet. Since I retired four years ago, I have been prone to join the sloppy drunk juice clowns when I want to be social. Wagner wanted the kind of