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Full-Text Articles in Jewish Studies
Jews In Film And Fiction, Amy W. Kratka
Jews In Film And Fiction, Amy W. Kratka
Open Educational Resources
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Intro To Jewish American Literature, Amy W. Kratka
Intro To Jewish American Literature, Amy W. Kratka
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Fascist Aesthetics From 1940 To Contemporary Times, Anna M. Gellerman
Fascist Aesthetics From 1940 To Contemporary Times, Anna M. Gellerman
Publications and Research
Movies and literature all over the world share some common aesthetics: militarization, romanticization of death, beauty of perfection, and even purity. What most don't think about is how these tropes rose to popularity due to Nazi Germany's propaganda films. This work describes these fascist aesthetics, and uses famous publications from the 1940s until now to paint just how common these themes are.
How To Be A French Jew: Proust, Lazare, Glissant, Paul J. Fadoul
How To Be A French Jew: Proust, Lazare, Glissant, Paul J. Fadoul
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In my dissertation I use Auerbach's insights developed in his Mimesis to demonstrate that in A la recherche, Proust captures the political and racial concerns of his times, proposing as a solution a heterogeneous French society where cultural, ethnic, and religious groups live together in mutual respect and understanding. In his novel, Proust echoes ideas developed by Bernard Lazare in Le Nationalisme Juif (1897) as well as in the literary output of the first French Jewish Renaissance (early1900’s to the mid1930’s). These authors responded to the portentous mix of Nationalist and anti-Semitic politics by urging the creation of a separate …