Longing, Belonging, and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18603-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: IJS Studies in Judaica

Jewish history has been extensively studied from social, political, religious, and intellectual perspectives, but the history of Jewish consumption and leisure has largely been ignored. The hitherto neglect of scholarship on Jewish consumer culture arises from the tendency within Jewish studies to chronicle the production of high culture and entrepreneurship. Yet consumerism played a central role in Jewish life. This volume is the first of its kind to deal with the topic of Jewish consumer culture. It gives new insights on Jewish belongings and longings and provides multiple readings of Jewish consumer culture as a vehicle of integration and identity in modern times

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of the modern Jewish history, modern history, culture, consumer and leisure cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reuveni, Gideon

Roemer, Nils

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents
Introduction: Longing, Belonging and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture
Chapter 1: Jewish Consumer Culture in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
David Biale
Chapter 2: German-Jewish Spatial Cultures: Consuming and Refashioning Jewish Belonging in Berlin, 1890-1910
Sarah E. Wobick-Segev
Chapter 3: Jewish Idenity, Mass Consumption, and Modern Design
Elana Shapira
Chapter 4: Longing and Belonging: French Impressionism and Jewish Art Patronage
Veronica Grodzinski
Chapter 5: Advertising Jewish Ethnic Marketing and Consumer Ambivalence in Weimar Germany
Gideon Reuveni
Chapter 6: Jews as Consumers and Providers in Provincial Towns: The Example of Linz and Salzburg, 1900-1938
Michael John
Chapter 7: How to Cook in Palestine: Kurfürstendamm meets Rehov Ben Jehuda
Joachim Schlör
Chapter 8: Di toyre fun skhoyre, or, I Shop, Therefore I Am: The Consumer Cultures of American Jews
Jeffrey Shandler
Chapter 9: Consuming Identities: German-Jewish Performativity after the "Schoah"
David Brenner

Über Autor(innen)

Gideon Reuveni Ph.D. (2001) is lecturer for modern Jewish and European history at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Reading Germany (2006), and the co-editor of several books on different aspects of Jewish history.

Nils Roemer, Ph.D. (2000) is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of numerous books and articles and co-editor of various volumes on modern Jewish cultural and intellectual history.