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Author:

Skolnik, Jonathan, 1967- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Jews in literature.
Jewish historical fiction, German--History and criticism.
German fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
German fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Collective memory and literature--Germany--History.
Sephardim in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-255) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Jewish cultural memory and the German historical novel -- Jewish history under the sign of secularization : Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza (1837) -- "Who learns history from Heine?" : Wissenschaft des Judentums and Heinrich Heine's Der Rabbi von Bacherach (1840) -- Minority culture in the age of the nation : Jewish historical fiction in nineteenth-century Germany -- German modernism and Jewish memory : Else Lasker-Schüler's Der Wunderrabbiner von Barcelona (1921) -- "Where books are burned" : Jewish memories of inquisition and expulsion in Nazi Germany and in exile -- Epilogue : post-Holocaust echoes.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

ISBN:

0804786070 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804786072 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)864676607

LCCN:

2013042647

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)