Jewish pasts, German fictions :: history, memory, and minority culture in Germany, 1824-1955 /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Skolnik, Jonathan, 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Schriftenreihe:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780804790598
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