Binding: Paperback
Description: In turn - of - the - century Vienna Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists which brought him a reputation as the quintessential self - hating Jew. The Anti - Journalist overturns this view with unprecedented force and sophistication showing how Kraus's criticisms form the center of a radical model of German - Jewish self - fashioning and how that model developed in concert with Kraus's modernist journalistic style. Paul Reitter's study of Kraus's writings situates them in the context of fin - de - si cle German - Jewish intellectual society. He argues that rather than stemming from anti - Semitism Kraus's attacks constituted an innovative critique of mainstream German - Jewish strategies for assimilation. Marshalling three of the most daring German - Jewish authors Kafka Scholem and Benjamin Reitter explains their admiration for Kraus's project and demonstrates his influence on their own notions of cultural authenticity. The Anti - Journalist is at once a new interpretation of a fascinating modernist oeuvre and a heady exploration of an important stage in the history of German - Jewish thinking about identity.
Title: The Anti - Journalist Karl Kraus And Jewish Self - Fashioning In Fin - De - Siecle Europe
Author(s): Reitter Paul
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226754574
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 11/9/2020
Series: Studies in German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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