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  • Deborah and Her Sisters

    How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage

    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Before Fiddler on the Roof, before The Jazz Singer, there was Deborah, a tear-jerking melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Within a few years of its 1849 debut in Hamburg, the play was seen on stages across Germany and Austria, as well as throughout Europe, the British Empire, and North America. The German-Jewish elite complained that the playwright, Jewish writer S. H. ... Leer más

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  • Deborah and Her Sisters

    How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage

    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Before Fiddler on the Roof, before The Jazz Singer, there was Deborah, a tear-jerking melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Within a few years of its 1849 debut in Hamburg, the play was seen on stages across Germany and Austria, as well as throughout Europe, the British Empire, and North America. The German-Jewish elite complained that the playwright, Jewish writer S. H. ... Leer más

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  • Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature

    A Reader

    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century—fiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume makes this material accessible to English speakers for the first time, offering a selection of Jewish fiction from France, Great Britain, and the German-speaking world. The stories ... Leer más

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  • Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature

    A Reader

    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century—fiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume makes this material accessible to English speakers for the first time, offering a selection of Jewish fiction from France, Great Britain, and the German-speaking world. The stories ... Leer más

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  • Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity

    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    For generations of German-speaking Jews, the works of Goethe and Schiller epitomized the world of European high culture, a realm that Jews actively participated in as both readers and consumers. Yet from the 1830s on, Jews writing in German also produced a vast corpus of popular fiction that was explicitly Jewish in content, audience, and function. Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German ... Leer más

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    Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany

    de Kerry Wallach ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Weimar Germany (1919–33) was an era of equal rights for women and minorities, but also of growing antisemitism and hostility toward the Jewish population. This led some Jews to want to pass or be perceived as non-Jews; yet there were still occasions when it was beneficial to be openly Jewish. Being visible as a Jew often involved appearing simultaneously non-Jewish and Jewish. Passing Illusions ... Leer más

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  • Wagnerism

    Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

    de Alex Ross ...
    Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of ... Leer más

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  • Nazi Germany and the Jews

    The Years of Perdecution, 1933–1939

    A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises in history, the extermination of Europe's Jews?Giving considerable emphasis to a wealth of new ... Leer más

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    Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

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  • The New York Public Library Literature Companion

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  • Wonder of Wonders

    A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof

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