Bambi's Jewish roots and other essays on German-Jewish culture /
"Paul Reitter's scholarship on German-Jewish culture has won acclaim in both specialized journals and forums like the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Bookforum, and the TLS, which named his study of Karl Kraus one of the best books of 2008. Writing for such publicatio...
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New York, NY, USA ; London, UK :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
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- Preface I. Self-Reflections 1. Total Polemic 2. Irrational Man 3. The Text Life of Dreams II. Legendary Lives 4. Misreading Kafka 5. The Wittgensteins and the Perils of Family Biography 6. Dust-to-Dust Song 7. Sadness in the Mountains III. Beyond the Canon 8. Bambi's Jewish Roots 9. Appraising the Collector 10. The Middle Way of Erich Fromm 11. Fear and Self-Loathing in fin-de-siecle Vienna IV. Renderings 12. That Other Metamorphosis 13. The Task of the Retranslator 14. Storm and Stress V. Studying German Jewry15. Kafka's Identity Politics 16. Whose Jewish 17. Role Models 18. Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go? 19. Rereading Freud's Moses Again 20. Auerbach's Exile VI. The End 21. Hitler Viennese Waltz 22. The Fuhrer Furor 23. Holocaust Imponderables 24. Racism: Coded as Culture Bibliography Index.