Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa : : Jewish Metamorphoses and the Colors of Difference / / Axel Stähler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Stähler, Axel,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 495 p.)

Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa explores the impact on the self-perception and culture of early Zionism of contemporary constructions of racial difference and of the experience of colonialism in imperial Germany. More specifically, interrogating in a comparative analysis material ranging from mainstream satirical magazines and cartoons to literary, aesthetic, and journalistic texts, advertisements, postcards and photographs, monuments and campaign medals, ethnographic exhibitions and publications, popular entertainment, political speeches, and parliamentary reports, the book situates the short-lived but influential Zionist satirical magazine Schlemiel (1903–07) in an extensive network of nodal clusters of varying and shifting significance and with differently developed strains of cohesion or juncture that roughly encompasses the three decades from 1890 to 1920.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements and Permissions -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Translations, the Appendices, and Controversial Lexical Choices -- Introduction: The Mbwapwa Rhizome: Jewish Metamorphoses and the Colors of Difference -- Chapter 1: Portrait of the African as a Jew – of the Jew as an African? -- Chapter 2: Soap Powder, the Jews, and the White Man’s Country -- Chapter 3: The German Empire, Africa, and the Jews -- Chapter 4: Imag(in)ing the Other: Satire and Colonial Conflict -- Chapter 5: Black Faces and Blackface: Mbwapwa, Mpundo, and the Variété -- Chapter 6: Human Meat and Tortured Souls: Oskar Panizza -- Conclusion: At the Fringes of the Mbwapwa Rhizome: Franz Kafka and Looming Conflagration -- Appendix I: Max Jungmann: Briefe aus Neu-Neuland -- Appendix II: Max Jungmann: Letters from New-Newland -- Bibliography -- Index