Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity

Publication Data

• Title Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity
• Author Jonathan M. Hess
• Publisher Stanford University Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Stanford, Calif.
• Language English

Contents

When rabbis became novelists : the emergence of Jewish literature in nineteenth-century Germany
Under the sword of the Spanish inquisition : the Sephardic legacy and the making of middlebrow classics
Leopold Kompert and the pleasures of nostalgia : ghetto fiction and the creation of a usable past
Middlebrow culture in pursuit of romance : love, fiction and the virtues of marrying in
Middlebrow fiction and the making of modern orthodoxy.

Topics

• German literature :: Jewish authors :: History and criticism
• German fiction :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• Jewish fiction :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• Jews :: Germany :: Intellectual life :: 19th century
• Group identity in literature
• Jews in literature

Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity by Jonathan M. Hess. ISBN 9780804761222. Published by Stanford University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.