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BL
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847837
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Hess, Jonathan M.,1965-2018.
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| Title & Author
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Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity /\ Jonathan M. Hess.
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| Publication Statement
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Stanford, Calif. :: Stanford University Press,, ©2010.
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| Series Statement
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
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1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0804774234
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: 9780804774239
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0804761221
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9780804761222
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-249) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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This work offers a comprehensive investigation of Jews writing in German, which sought to navigate between tradition and modernity, between Jewish history and the German present, and between the fading walls of the ghetto and the promise of a new identity as members of a German bourgeoisie.
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German fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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German literature-- Jewish authors-- History and criticism.
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Group identity in literature.
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Jewish fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Jews in literature.
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Jews-- Germany-- Intellectual life-- 19th century.
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German fiction.
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German literature-- Jewish authors.
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Group identity in literature.
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Jewish fiction.
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Jews in literature.
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Jews-- Intellectual life.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
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Germany.
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| Dewey Classification
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833/.7098924
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| LC Classification
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PT169.H47 2010eb
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