Title Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity / Jonathan M. Hess

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) : illustrations Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. Contents When rabbis became novelists : the emergence of Jewish literature in nineteenth-century Germany -- Under the sword of the Spanish inquisition : the Sephardic legacy and the making of middlebrow classics -- Leopold Kompert and the pleasures of nostalgia : ghetto fiction and the creation of a usable past -- Middlebrow culture in pursuit of romance : love, fiction and the virtues of marrying in -- Middlebrow fiction and the making of modern orthodoxy Summary This work offers a comprehensive investigation of Jews writing in German, which sought to navigate between tradition and modernity, between Jewish history and the German present, and between the fading walls of the ghetto and the promise of a new identity as members of a German bourgeoisie Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-249) and index Notes English Print version record Subject German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism German fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Jewish fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Group identity in literature. Jews in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German German fiction German literature -- Jewish authors Group identity in literature Jewish fiction Jews in literature Jews -- Intellectual life Germany Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2009030703 ISBN 9780804774239 0804774234

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