Bambi's Jewish roots and other essays on German-Jewish culture
Reitter, Paul
Bambi's Jewish roots and other essays on German-Jewish culture Paul Reitter - x, 282 Seiten
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 267-270
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.
"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"--
9781441166852 : hardback
2014045910
Jews--History--Germany--1800-1933
Jews--Intellectual life--Germany--19th century
Jews--Intellectual life--Germany--20th century
German literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism
Jews in literature
Antisemitism--History--Germany
Germany--Ethnic relations
Class of Spring 2018 John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities Fellow
Aufsatzsammlung
DS134.25
305.892/4043 LIT004170 HIS014000
Bambi's Jewish roots and other essays on German-Jewish culture Paul Reitter - x, 282 Seiten
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 267-270
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.
"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"--
9781441166852 : hardback
2014045910
Jews--History--Germany--1800-1933
Jews--Intellectual life--Germany--19th century
Jews--Intellectual life--Germany--20th century
German literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism
Jews in literature
Antisemitism--History--Germany
Germany--Ethnic relations
Class of Spring 2018 John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities Fellow
Aufsatzsammlung
DS134.25
305.892/4043 LIT004170 HIS014000