Melancholy Pride: Nation, Race, and Gender in the German Literature of Cultural Zionism

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This study attempts to analyze the multi-faceted and complicated relationship between the Central European, Germanic-Austrian cultural milieu and the Jewish national literature and culture which evolved within it at the turn of the last century. Issues regarding the construction and differentiation of a modern Jewish national identity and culture as an aspect of Cultural Zionism are central to this project, as are the problematical literary and cultural partnerships forged in an age of rising racialist thought, growing feminist consciousness, and increasing secularism. Preface and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction. The Parameters of German Cultural Zionism: The Possibility of a Jewish-National Literature in German? Chapter One. The Jewish Renaissance in Vienna and Berlin: A Literature and Art for the Sake of Zion Chapter Two. Satisfaktionsfähigkeit and Jewish Pride: The Literary and Cultural Expressions of Jewish Students and Fraternity Life at the Turn-of- the-Century Chapter Three. Börries von Münchhausen and E.M. Lilien: The Genesis of Juda and its Zionist Reception Chapter Four. The Rhetoric of Race and Jewish-National Cultural Politics: From Birnbaum and Buber to Brieger’s René Richter Chapter Five. Feminist-Zionist Expression: Ideology, Rhetoric, and Literature Chapter Six. Eroticism and Masochism in Cultural Zionism: Else Lasker- Schüler and Dolorosa Chapter Seven. “Strangers at Thy Gates”: Anti-Semitism, Philo-Zionism, and the Role of Non-Jews in Jewish - National Culture Conclusion. German Cultural Zionism, Jewish Difference, Modern Jewish Cultural Identity, and National Creativity Selected Bibliography Index