The Other Jewish Question : : Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity /

The Other Jewish Question : : Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity / / Jay Geller.

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This book examines how modernizing German-speaking cultures, undergoing their own processes of identification, responded to the narcissistic threat posed by the continued persistence of Judentum (Judaism, Jewry, Jewishness) by representing “the Jew”’s body—or rather parts of that body and the techni...

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Geller, Jay,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (530 p.) :; 9 Illustrations, black and white
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Toward a Physiognomic Epidemiology of the Fetishized Jew
  • Chapter 1 ‘‘Feminization’’ and the Problem of Jewish Persistence
  • Chapter 2 Tailing the Suspect, or the Braiding of Gender and Ethnic Difference
  • Chapter 3 From Mohels to Mein Kampf Syphilis and the Construction of Jewish Identification
  • Chapter 4 Circumcision and a Jewish Woman’s Identification: Rahel Levin Varnhagen’s Failed Assimilation
  • Chapter 5 Going to ‘‘Alimentary’’ School: Brotstudium, Ludwig Feuerbach, and the Dietetics of Antisemitism
  • Chapter 6 From Rags to Risches: On Marx’s Other Jewish Question
  • Chapter 7 A Future without Jews: Max Nordau’s Pre-Zionist Answer to the Other Jewish Question
  • Chapter 8 President Schreber and the Memoirs of a Wandering Jew(ess)
  • Chapter 9 Walter Benjamin Reproducing the Scent of the Messianic
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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