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Ofer Ashkenazi - Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity - 9781349344192 - V9781349344192
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Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity

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Description for Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity Paperback. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 250 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AP; HBG; HBJD; HRJ; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish symbiosis' before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German 'national' film in the years leading to Hitler's regime.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Series
Studies in European Culture and History
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349344192
SKU
V9781349344192
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About Ofer Ashkenazi
OFER ASHKENAZIVisiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, USA.

Reviews for Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity
"Against the previously standard reading of Weimar film as obsessed with the German nation, Ashkenazi provides an alternative reading that emphasizes the bourgeois and liberal dreams of these Jewish cultural actors. He argues convincingly that even in popular genre films with no manifest discussion of Jewishness, filmmakers such Ernst Lubitsch, Joe May, and Fritz ... Read more

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