{"product_id":"the-jewish-decadence-jonathan-freedman-9780226580920","title":"The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity","description":"As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and literature, philosophic pessimism, and an interest in nonnormative sexualities, decadence was also a smear, whereby Jews were viewed as the source of social and cultural decline. In \u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Decadence\u003c\/i\u003e, Jonathan Freedman argues that Jewish engagement with decadence played a major role in the emergence of modernism and the making of Jewish culture from the 1870s to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The first to tell this sweeping story, Freedman demonstrates the centrality of decadence to the aesthetics of modernity and its inextricability from Jewishness. Freedman recounts a series of diverse and surprising episodes that he insists do not belong solely to the past, but instead reveal that the identification of Jewishness with decadence persists today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Freedman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022658092X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226580920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Jonathan Freedman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990974497023,"sku":"9780226580920","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b329d4fa-e481-4260-8a52-ca370ea93051.jpg?v=1683307724","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-jewish-decadence-jonathan-freedman-9780226580920","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}