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The Invisible Jewish Budapest : Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle /
Nearly a quarter of the population of Budapest at the fin de siecle 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....
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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: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Nearly a quarter of the population of Budapest at the fin de siecle 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 (268 pages): illustrations, portraits |
| ISBN: | 9780299307738 |