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The other Jewish question : identifying the Jew and making sense of modernity /

Examining how modernising German-speaking cultures responded to the 'threat' posed by the persistence of Judentum, this text addresses issues relating to the representation of parts of the body and the techniques performed upon them.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Geller, Jay, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: toward a physiognomic epidemiology of the fetishized Jew
  • Feminization and the problem of Jewish persistence
  • Tailing the suspect, or the braiding of gender and ethnic difference
  • From mohels to Mein Kampf: syphilis and the construction of Jewish identification
  • Circumcision and a Jewish woman's identification: Rahel Levin Varnhagen's failed assimilation
  • Going to "alimentary" school: brotstudium, Ludwig feuerbach, and the dietetics of antisemitism
  • From rags to risches: on Marx's other Jewish question
  • A future without Jews: Max Nordau's pre-Zionist answer to the other Jewish question
  • President Schreber and the memoirs of a wandering Jew(ess)
  • Walter Benjamin reproducing the scent of the messianic.