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Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women And Fashion In 1920s Germany, Kerry Wallach
Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women And Fashion In 1920s Germany, Kerry Wallach
German Studies Faculty Publications
This volume presents papers delivered at the 24th Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, held at Creighton University in October 2011. The contributors look at all aspects of the intimate relationship between Jews and clothing, through case studies from ancient, medieval, recent, and contemporary history. Papers explore topics ranging from Jewish leadership in the textile industry, through the art of fashion in nineteenth century Vienna, to the use of clothing as a badge of ethnic identity, in both secular and religious contexts. Dr. Kerry Wallach's chapter examines the uniquely Jewish engagement with fashion and attire in Weimar, Germany.
Neue Jugend - Einleitung, Henning Wrage
Neue Jugend - Einleitung, Henning Wrage
German Studies Faculty Publications
Book Summary: This book discusses research on the culture of postwar Germany (1945–1962), a topic that has become increasingly complex in recent years. Virulent topics such as war, destruction, homecoming, flight, expulsion, guilt, daily life, religion, etc., are explored systematically, using examples and by focusing on fiction, nonfiction, and film in the two German states. Historians and scholars in the field of literature and film have contributed to this compendium. They address various core questions concerning aesthetic representation and the formation of contemporary history.
Dragica Rajcic: Writing Women And War In The Margins, Laurel Cohen-Pfister
Dragica Rajcic: Writing Women And War In The Margins, Laurel Cohen-Pfister
German Studies Faculty Publications
Croatian-born Dragica Rajcic has received several awards for her poetry and short prose works. The author, who writes in German, permanently resides in Switzerland since fleeing war-torn Croatia in 1991. Rajcic's Heimat, she claims, is in language, not any place defined by geographical boundaries (Rajcic, 2009). Often praised for its sharp irony and cutting insight, Rajcic's language artfully deconstructs the reality it circumscribes. Defiant of the linguistic rules of grammar prescribed by High German, Rajcic's voice revels in its foreignness, in its ability to comment and critique precisely because it stands outside the realm of the familiar and expected. [ …
Kosher Seductions: Jewish Women As Employees And Consumers In German Department Stores, Kerry Wallach
Kosher Seductions: Jewish Women As Employees And Consumers In German Department Stores, Kerry Wallach
German Studies Faculty Publications
Department stores have long been associated with the trope of seducing female consumers, at least since the publication of Emile Zola’s novel Au bonheur des dames in 1883. This fictionalized portrayal of the Parisian department store Bon Marche, which has exerted considerable influence among early chroniclers of department store culture, identifies store owners as men who build ‘temples’ for prospective customers, and who use inebriating tactics to encourage them to enter and spend money. The consumer is gendered female in this and in many other literary works on the department store of the time; she is depicted as reluctant, yet …
Recognition For The ‘Beautiful Jewess’: Beauty Queens Crowned By Modern Jewish Print Media, Kerry Wallach
Recognition For The ‘Beautiful Jewess’: Beauty Queens Crowned By Modern Jewish Print Media, Kerry Wallach
German Studies Faculty Publications
This chapter demonstrates how women’s bodies were appropriated (in times of adversity) to promote Jewishness and Jewish ethnic/racial body aesthetics in a variety of locations, including Europe (Germany, Poland, Hungary), Tel Aviv, Argentina, and the United States.
Autumn Day, Rainer Maria Rilke, Michael Ritterson
Autumn Day, Rainer Maria Rilke, Michael Ritterson
German Studies Faculty Publications
This is the English translation of the poem “Herbsttag” by Rainer Maria Rilke, from his Buch der Bilder (1902).
Schönborn, Sibylle, Karl Ivan Solibakke, And Bernd Witte, Eds. Traditionen Jüdischen Denkens In Europa., Kerry Wallach
Schönborn, Sibylle, Karl Ivan Solibakke, And Bernd Witte, Eds. Traditionen Jüdischen Denkens In Europa., Kerry Wallach
German Studies Faculty Publications
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(Marxian-Psychoanalytic) Biopolitics & Bioracism, A. Kiarina Kordela
(Marxian-Psychoanalytic) Biopolitics & Bioracism, A. Kiarina Kordela
German Studies Faculty Publications
The full issue can be found at http://re-press.org/books/penumbra.