TY - BOOK AU - Reitter,Paul TI - Bambi's Jewish roots and other essays on German-Jewish culture SN - 9781441166852 AV - DS134.25 U1 - 305.892/4043 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York, London, New Delhi, Sydney PB - Bloomsbury Academic is an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc KW - Jews KW - Germany KW - History KW - 1800-1933 KW - Intellectual life KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - German literature KW - Jewish authors KW - History and criticism KW - Jews in literature KW - Antisemitism KW - Ethnic relations KW - Class of Spring 2018 KW - John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities KW - Fellow KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - gnd-content N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- UR - http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/852/9781441166852/image/lgcover.9781441166852.jpg ER -