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The invisible Jewish Budapest : metropolitan culture at the Fin de Siecle /
Nearly a quarter of the population of Budapest at the fin de siècle was Jewish. This demographic fact appears startling primarily because of its virtual absence from canonical histories of the city.Famed for its cosmopolitan culture and vibrant nightlife, Budapest owed much to its Jewish population...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wisconsin :
University of Wisconsin Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Nearly a quarter of the population of Budapest at the fin de siècle was Jewish. This demographic fact appears startling primarily because of its virtual absence from canonical histories of the city.Famed for its cosmopolitan culture and vibrant nightlife, Budapest owed much to its Jewish population. Indeed, it was Jews who helped shape the city's complex urban modernity between 1867 and 1914. Yet these contributions were often unacknowledged, leading to a metaphoric, if not literal, invisible status for many of Budapest's Jews.In the years since, particularly between the wars, anti-Semites wit. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780299307738 0299307735 |