German-Jewish popular culture before the Holocaust : Kafka's kitsch /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brenner, David A., 1964-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:	Routledge Jewish studies series.
Subjects:	Jews in popular culture > Germany > History > 20th century. Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century. Popular culture > Germany.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : identifying (with) German-Jewish popular culture
Between high and low, laughter and tears : making Yiddish theater "respectable" in turn-of-the-century Jewish Berlin
Schlemiel, shlimazel : a proto-postcolonialist satire of Jews, blacks, and Germans
A German-Jewish hermaphrodite, or : what sexology contributed to B'nai Brith
Franz's folk(lore) : Kafka's Jewish father-complex
Pogrom in...Berlin? : working through the Weimar Jewish experience in popular fiction
After the "Schoah" : performing German-Jewish symbiosis today.