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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

    par Jonathan M. Hess ...
    Collections 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. ... En savoir plus

    $72.79 CAD

  • Deborah and Her Sisters

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

    par Jonathan M. Hess ...
    Collections 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. ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

  • Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature

    A Reader

    Modifié par Jonathan M. Hess, Maurice Samuels, Nadia Vaiman ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature

    A Reader

    Modifié par Jonathan M. Hess, Maurice Samuels, Nadia Vaiman ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity

    par Jonathan M. Hess ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $82.49 CAD

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  • Passing Illusions

    Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany

    par Kerry Wallach ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Wagnerism

    Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Nazi Germany and the Jews

    The Years of Perdecution, 1933–1939

    par Saul Friedländer ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Solar Dance

    Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age

    par Modris Eksteins ...
    In Solar Dance, acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century.The long-awaited follow-up to Modris Eksteins' internationally acclaimed Rites of Springand Walking Since Daybreak. Now he has produced another thrilling, iconoclastic work of cultural history that is a trailblazing biography ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Weimar Culture

    The Outsider as Insider

    par Peter Gay ...
    A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles.First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Butcher's Tale

    Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

    par Helmut Walser Smith ...
    One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written.In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to accuse the Jews of ritual murder—the infamous blood-libel charge that has haunted Jews for centuries. In an ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The New York Public Library Literature Companion

    par Staff of The New York Public Library ...
    Pick up The New York Public Library Literature Companion to check the dates of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past or to find out how James Joyce's Ulysses changed U.S. obscenity laws, and you may find yourself hours later absorbed in the imaginary worlds of Camelot and The Matrix or sidetracked by the fascinating history of The New Yorker. Designed to satisfy the curious browser as well as ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD