The Jewish Decadence
Title | The Jewish Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Freedman |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2021-04-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 022658108X |
"Freedman's final book is a tour de force that examines the history of Jewish involvement in the decadent art movement. While decadent art's most notorious practitioner was Oscar Wilde, as a movement it spread through western Europe and even included a few adherents in Russia. Jewish writers and artists such as Catulle Mèndes, Gustav Kahn, and Simeon Solomon would portray non-stereotyped characters and produce highly influential works. After decadent art's peak, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud would take up the idiom of decadence and carry it with them during the cultural transition to modernism. Freedman expertly and elegantly takes readers through this transition and beyond, showing the lineage of Jewish decadence all the way through to the end of the twentieth century"--
The Decadence of Judaism in Our Time
Title | The Decadence of Judaism in Our Time PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Menuhin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Jewish-Arab relations |
ISBN |
Decadence of Judaism in Our Time
Title | Decadence of Judaism in Our Time PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Menuhin |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1984-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780911026009 |
“The” Decadence of Judaism in Our Time
Title | “The” Decadence of Judaism in Our Time PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Menuhin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Decadence
Title | Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | David Weir |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0190610220 |
Introduction -- Rome: classical decadence -- Paris: cultural decadence -- London: social decadence -- Vienna and Berlin: socio-cultural decadence -- Afterword: legacies of decadence
A Rich Brew
Title | A Rich Brew PDF eBook |
Author | Shachar Pinsker |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2018-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1479827894 |
Finalist, 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, presented by the Jewish Book Council Winner, 2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, in the Jewish Literature and Linguistics Category, given by the Association for Jewish Studies A fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish culture Unlike the synagogue, the house of study, the community center, or the Jewish deli, the café is rarely considered a Jewish space. Yet, coffeehouses profoundly influenced the creation of modern Jewish culture from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. With roots stemming from the Ottoman Empire, the coffeehouse and its drinks gained increasing popularity in Europe. The “otherness,” and the mix of the national and transnational characteristics of the coffeehouse perhaps explains why many of these cafés were owned by Jews, why Jews became their most devoted habitués, and how cafés acquired associations with Jewishness. Examining the convergence of cafés, their urban milieu, and Jewish creativity, Shachar M. Pinsker argues that cafés anchored a silk road of modern Jewish culture. He uncovers a network of interconnected cafés that were central to the modern Jewish experience in a time of migration and urbanization, from Odessa, Warsaw, Vienna, and Berlin to New York City and Tel Aviv. A Rich Brew explores the Jewish culture created in these social spaces, drawing on a vivid collection of newspaper articles, memoirs, archival documents, photographs, caricatures, and artwork, as well as stories, novels, and poems in many languages set in cafés. Pinsker shows how Jewish modernity was born in the café, nourished, and sent out into the world by way of print, politics, literature, art, and theater. What was experienced and created in the space of the coffeehouse touched thousands who read, saw, and imbibed a modern culture that redefined what it meant to be a Jew in the world.
The Greatness & the Decadence of the Jews
Title | The Greatness & the Decadence of the Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Marx |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Judaism |
ISBN | 9780892660384 |