Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hess, Jonathan M., 1965-2018
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
Series:	Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Subjects:	German literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism. German fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Jewish fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > 19th century. Group identity in literature. Jews in literature.

Table of Contents:

When rabbis became novelists : the emergence of Jewish literature in nineteenth-century Germany
Under the sword of the Spanish inquisition : the Sephardic legacy and the making of middlebrow classics
Leopold Kompert and the pleasures of nostalgia : ghetto fiction and the creation of a usable past
Middlebrow culture in pursuit of romance : love, fiction, and the virtues of marrying in
Middlebrow fiction and the making of modern orthodoxy.