Format:
1 online resource (277 pages)
ISBN:
9780804774239
Series Statement:
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.
Content:
This book opens our eyes to the vast corpus of popular fiction written by Jews for Jews in nineteenth-century Germany, discovering a tradition of Jewish literature that is in many ways still with us today.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Under the Sword of the Spanish Inquisition: The Sephardic Legacy and the Making of Middlebrow Classics -- 2. Leopold Kompert and the Pleasures of Nostalgia: Ghetto Fiction and the Creation of a Usable Past -- 3. Middlebrow Culture in Pursuit of Romance: Love, Fiction, and the Virtues of Marrying In -- 4. Middlebrow Fiction and the Making of Modern Orthodoxy -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804761222
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804761222
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=543995
