{"product_id":"jewish-pasts-german-fictions-jonathan-skolnik-9780804786072","title":"Jewish Pasts, German Fictions: History, Memory, and Minority Culture in Germany, 1824-1955","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJewish Pasts, German Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat did it imply for a minority to imagine its history in the majority language? Skolnik makes the case that the answer lies in the creation of a German-Jewish minority culture in which historical fiction played a central role. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Jewish writers and artists, both in Nazi Germany and in exile, employed images from the Sephardic past to grapple with the nature of fascism, the predicament of exile, and the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust. The book goes on to show that this past not only helped Jews to make sense of the nonsense, but served also as a window into the hopes for integration and fears about assimilation that preoccupied German-Jewish writers throughout most of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, Skolnik positions the Jewish embrace of German culture not as an act of assimilation but rather a reinvention of Jewish identity and historical memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Skolnik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804786070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804786072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2014","brand":"Jonathan Skolnik","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44583737884927,"sku":"9780804786072","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28c5d3c9-9251-4592-a414-047cad73c0b4.jpg?v=1701883279","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jewish-pasts-german-fictions-jonathan-skolnik-9780804786072","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}