Feuchtwanger and Judaism
This collection of essays is devoted to the Jewish themes that ran through Lion Feuchtwanger’s life, works and worlds. The author’s approaches to Jewish history, Zionism, religion and Jewish identity are all explored. The book also more broadly considers the condition of exile and the communities of émigrés in North America and beyond.
This collection of essays is devoted to the Jewish themes that ran through Lion Feuchtwanger’s life, works and worlds. The author’s approaches to Jewish history, Zionism, religion and Jewish identity are all explored. The book also more broadly considers the condition of exile and the communities of émigrés in North America and beyond.
| ISBN: | 9781788745567 |
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| Auflage: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 292 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Herausgeber: | Lerner, Paul Stern, Frank |
| Verlag: | Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers |
| Veröffentlicht: | 23.08.2019 |
| Untertitel: | History, Imagination, Exile |
| Schlagworte: | Exile Exile Studies Feuchtwanger Frank History Imagination Jewish History Jewish identity Jewish religion Judaism |
Paul Lerner is Professor of History at the University of SouthernCalifornia specializing in German-Jewish cultural history. He is theauthor of The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and theConsumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940 and Hysterical Men: War,Psychiatry and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890–1930 and theeditor of works on Jewish consumer culture, Los Angeles as a site ofGerman-American crossings, and German Jews and gender history.Frank Stern is Professor for Visual and Contemporary Cultureat the University of Vienna specializing in German-Jewish, Austrian-Jewish and Israeli cultural history with a focus an cinema. He is theauthor of The Whitewashing of the Yellow Badge: Antisemitism andPhilosemitism in Postwar Germany and Franz Rosenzweig. Denkerder Jüdischen Moderne and the editor of Feuchtwanger und Exil andnumerous other publications on film and cultural history.