Melancholy Pride : : Nation, Race, and Gender in the German Literature of Cultural Zionism / / Mark H. Gelber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Gelber, Mark H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2014]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Conditio Judaica : Studien und Quellen zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte , 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (309 p.)

This study attempts to analyze the multi-faceted and complicated relationship between the Central European, Germanic-Austrian cultural milieu and the Jewish national literature and culture which evolved within it at the turn of the last century. Issues regarding the construction and differentiation...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction. The Parameters of German Cultural Zionism: The Possibility of a Jewish-National Literature in German?
• Chapter One. The Jewish Renaissance in Vienna and Berlin: A Literature and Art for the Sake of Zion
• Chapter Two. Satisfaktionsfähigkeit and Jewish Pride: The Literary and Cultural Expressions of Jewish Students and Fraternity Life at the Turn-of-the-Century
• Chapter Three. Börries von Münchhausen and E.M. Lilien: The Genesis of Juda and its Zionist Reception
• Chapter Four. The Rhetoric of Race and Jewish-National Cultural Politics: From Birnbaum and Buber to Brieger’s René Richter
• Chapter Five. Feminist-Zionist Expression: Ideology, Rhetoric, and Literature
• Chapter Six. Eroticism and Masochism in Cultural Zionism: Else Lasker-Schiiler and Dolorosa
• Chapter Seven. “Strangers at Thy Gates”: Anti-Semitism, Philo-Zionism, and the Role of Non-Jews in Jewish-National Culture275
• Conclusion. German Cultural Zionism, Jewish Difference, Modern Jewish Cultural Identity and National Creativity
• Selected Bibliography
• Index