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Between Redemption and Doom Noah Isenberg

Between Redemption and Doom By Noah Isenberg

Between Redemption and Doom by Noah Isenberg


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A revelatory exploration of the evolution of German-Jewish modernism. Through an examination of selected works in literature, theory, and film, it investigates the ways in which Jewish identity was represented in German culture from the eve of the First World War through the rise of National Socialism.

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Between Redemption and Doom Summary

Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism by Noah Isenberg

Between Redemption and Doom is a revelatory exploration of the evolution of German-Jewish modernism. Through an examination of selected works in literature, theory, and film, Noah Isenberg investigates the ways in which Jewish identity was represented in German culture from the eve of the First World War through the rise of National Socialism. He argues that various responses to modernity-particularly to its social, cultural, and aesthetic currents-converge around the discourse on community: its renaissance, its crisis, and its dissolution. Isenberg opens with a general discussion of German modernism-its primary forms, movements, and manifestations. Subsequent chapters on Franz Kafka and Arnold Zweig deal with particular instances of the modern, and often ambivalent, search for forms of German-Jewish identity based on cultural and ethnic community. Discussions of Paul Wegener's film Der Golem and Walter Benjamin's childhood memoirs explore the culmination of German modernism and the modes through which Jews were identified in mass society. Throughout, Isenberg shows how Jewish authors and figures confronted the dilemma of self-understanding-the exigencies of community in the modern world-in language, culture, memory, and representation.

Between Redemption and Doom Reviews

The complex tensions inherent in the so-called 'German-Jewish dialogue,' located in the murky intersection of literature, art, history, and memory, are brilliantly illuminated in Noah Isenberg's rich and thoughtful interpretation.-Michael Berkowitz, author of Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War
This book provides a basis from which to explore the 'borderlands' of Jewish life and experience in the Germany of the Weimar Republic and their memory in the Germany of today.-Karen Remmler, coauthor of Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany

About Noah Isenberg

Noah Isenberg is an assistant professor of German studies at Wesleyan University.

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CIN0803220634G
9780803220638
0803220634
Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism by Noah Isenberg
Used - Good
Paperback
University of Nebraska Press
20081201
234
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