Harold James
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691153407
- eISBN:
- 9781400841868
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691153407.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter studies Krupp in the postwar world, particularly in the company's attempts at reinventing itself in the modern age. It first discusses the extent of the postwar German industrial ...
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This chapter studies Krupp in the postwar world, particularly in the company's attempts at reinventing itself in the modern age. It first discusses the extent of the postwar German industrial recovery, as German business began the new era with very limited financial resources, and considers the new management approaches undertaken by the company following the war. The chapter also examines the company's weathering through yet another financial crisis as the German steel industry fell in decline. Yet throughout all this the chapter shows how the company has attempted to recover and reinvent itself, becoming more globalized in the process and yet somehow returning to the roots of German industrial culture.Less
This chapter studies Krupp in the postwar world, particularly in the company's attempts at reinventing itself in the modern age. It first discusses the extent of the postwar German industrial recovery, as German business began the new era with very limited financial resources, and considers the new management approaches undertaken by the company following the war. The chapter also examines the company's weathering through yet another financial crisis as the German steel industry fell in decline. Yet throughout all this the chapter shows how the company has attempted to recover and reinvent itself, becoming more globalized in the process and yet somehow returning to the roots of German industrial culture.
Jack Zipes
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691160580
- eISBN:
- 9781400852581
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691160580.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Folk Literature
This chapter sets the discussion of the legacy of the Grimms' tales in the German sociocultural context of the last twenty-five years. It begins by discussing some of the more recent popular ...
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This chapter sets the discussion of the legacy of the Grimms' tales in the German sociocultural context of the last twenty-five years. It begins by discussing some of the more recent popular manifestations of their stories. The chapter focuses mainly on literature, including picture books and filmic adaptations, though given the large amount of material available, it will only feature a selection of this literature. Following the discussion of popular manifestations, the chapter turns to the concept or notion of a Grimm legacy and concludes with an analysis of scholarly studies that, in contrast to popular culture, have grounded the legacy of the Grimms in substantial ways that would have gratified the Grimms.Less
This chapter sets the discussion of the legacy of the Grimms' tales in the German sociocultural context of the last twenty-five years. It begins by discussing some of the more recent popular manifestations of their stories. The chapter focuses mainly on literature, including picture books and filmic adaptations, though given the large amount of material available, it will only feature a selection of this literature. Following the discussion of popular manifestations, the chapter turns to the concept or notion of a Grimm legacy and concludes with an analysis of scholarly studies that, in contrast to popular culture, have grounded the legacy of the Grimms in substantial ways that would have gratified the Grimms.
David Midgley
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151791
- eISBN:
- 9780191672835
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151791.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters and presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It shows that what we are dealing with in the Weimar period is not a ...
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This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters and presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It shows that what we are dealing with in the Weimar period is not a straightforward paradigm shift from one literary style to another, nor a straightforward collapse into authoritarian attitudes. Rather, we are dealing with a contest among writers and artists over the appropriate attitudes to adopt towards the post-war situation of the German-speaking world, over the interpretation of major cultural issues which present themselves in that situation, and over the techniques of representation appropriate to that task of interpretation.Less
This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters and presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It shows that what we are dealing with in the Weimar period is not a straightforward paradigm shift from one literary style to another, nor a straightforward collapse into authoritarian attitudes. Rather, we are dealing with a contest among writers and artists over the appropriate attitudes to adopt towards the post-war situation of the German-speaking world, over the interpretation of major cultural issues which present themselves in that situation, and over the techniques of representation appropriate to that task of interpretation.
Michael H. Kater
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195096200
- eISBN:
- 9780199870219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195096200.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter begins with a discussion of the Nazi struggle for modernity in music. It then discusses how German musicians in the Nazi era had a surprising degree of latitude in the creation and ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of the Nazi struggle for modernity in music. It then discusses how German musicians in the Nazi era had a surprising degree of latitude in the creation and performance of their works. It focuses on Richard Strauss who wore the mask of an apolitical artist but was, in reality, more consciously and more skillfully political than most of his artistic contemporaries. Finally, the chapter considers disobedience by German musicians against Nazi authority.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of the Nazi struggle for modernity in music. It then discusses how German musicians in the Nazi era had a surprising degree of latitude in the creation and performance of their works. It focuses on Richard Strauss who wore the mask of an apolitical artist but was, in reality, more consciously and more skillfully political than most of his artistic contemporaries. Finally, the chapter considers disobedience by German musicians against Nazi authority.
Scott Spector
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520219090
- eISBN:
- 9780520929777
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520219090.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter talks about Prague German culture and the city's German-speaking Jewish population. For German culture was as central to bourgeois Jewish life in Prague as Jews seemed to be to its ...
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This chapter talks about Prague German culture and the city's German-speaking Jewish population. For German culture was as central to bourgeois Jewish life in Prague as Jews seemed to be to its production, funding, and appreciation. The generation of Franz Kafka, Felix Weltsch, Egon Erwin Kisch, and Max Brod grew into an awareness of the dilemma of culture and nation in Prague that the generations before them had been able to repress. Their early explorations of the constellation of issues attached to artistic production in postliberal Prague point to a tension between aesthetics and politics, art and life, text and context—in other words, the specific pathology of their very particular condition in this time and place put them in a privileged position vis-à-vis a set of issues at the center of the Modern.Less
This chapter talks about Prague German culture and the city's German-speaking Jewish population. For German culture was as central to bourgeois Jewish life in Prague as Jews seemed to be to its production, funding, and appreciation. The generation of Franz Kafka, Felix Weltsch, Egon Erwin Kisch, and Max Brod grew into an awareness of the dilemma of culture and nation in Prague that the generations before them had been able to repress. Their early explorations of the constellation of issues attached to artistic production in postliberal Prague point to a tension between aesthetics and politics, art and life, text and context—in other words, the specific pathology of their very particular condition in this time and place put them in a privileged position vis-à-vis a set of issues at the center of the Modern.
R. H. Stephenson
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263020
- eISBN:
- 9780191734199
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263020.003.0022
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Professor Elizabeth M. Wilkinson was one of the greatest, and — across the whole spectrum of the humanities — one of the most highly regarded, scholars of German culture the United Kingdom has ...
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Professor Elizabeth M. Wilkinson was one of the greatest, and — across the whole spectrum of the humanities — one of the most highly regarded, scholars of German culture the United Kingdom has produced, in particular because of her illuminating work, both historical and theoretical, on German Classicism, which did much to bring home its living significance. All who knew her were impressed by the depth and breadth of mind that she brought to bear on her work. She is fondly remembered as a teacher of genius who combined in a uniquely charismatic way sheer intellectual excitement, tender (and patient) regard for the development of individual students, and a passionate — sometimes fierce — dedication to the resolution of first-order problems.Less
Professor Elizabeth M. Wilkinson was one of the greatest, and — across the whole spectrum of the humanities — one of the most highly regarded, scholars of German culture the United Kingdom has produced, in particular because of her illuminating work, both historical and theoretical, on German Classicism, which did much to bring home its living significance. All who knew her were impressed by the depth and breadth of mind that she brought to bear on her work. She is fondly remembered as a teacher of genius who combined in a uniquely charismatic way sheer intellectual excitement, tender (and patient) regard for the development of individual students, and a passionate — sometimes fierce — dedication to the resolution of first-order problems.
Konrad H. Jarausch
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195127799
- eISBN:
- 9780199869503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195127799.003.13
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the aftermath of the German defeat and the atrocities committed under Nazi dictatorship. It then considers interpretations of Nazi barbarism. The ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the aftermath of the German defeat and the atrocities committed under Nazi dictatorship. It then considers interpretations of Nazi barbarism. The chapter explains the purpose of the book, which is to explore German political culture during the second half of the 20th century. It looks at the practical rather than the intellectual ways in which Germans dealt with their problematic past.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the aftermath of the German defeat and the atrocities committed under Nazi dictatorship. It then considers interpretations of Nazi barbarism. The chapter explains the purpose of the book, which is to explore German political culture during the second half of the 20th century. It looks at the practical rather than the intellectual ways in which Germans dealt with their problematic past.
Konrad H. Jarausch
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195127799
- eISBN:
- 9780199869503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195127799.003.06
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter deals with the generational rebellion of 1968 and discusses its negative effects upon social discipline, as well as its liberalizing contribution towards transforming German political ...
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This chapter deals with the generational rebellion of 1968 and discusses its negative effects upon social discipline, as well as its liberalizing contribution towards transforming German political culture.Less
This chapter deals with the generational rebellion of 1968 and discusses its negative effects upon social discipline, as well as its liberalizing contribution towards transforming German political culture.
Ritchie Robertson
- Published in print:
- 1987
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198158141
- eISBN:
- 9780191673276
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198158141.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter provides a picture of what being a Jew in Franz Kafka's Prague was actually like and discloses some of the complicated ways in which three cultures — German, Czech, and Jewish — ...
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This chapter provides a picture of what being a Jew in Franz Kafka's Prague was actually like and discloses some of the complicated ways in which three cultures — German, Czech, and Jewish — interpenetrated in Kafka's upbringing. It also suggests how Kafka's exploration of Jewish culture was related to his breakthrough into major literary achievement with Das Urteil, the story he wrote at a single sitting on the night of September 22–3, 1912. The Jews of Prague were a small group: in 1900 they numbered 26,342. Though some had Czech as their native language, the majority spoke German and probably formed between a third and a half of the city's German-speaking community. This chapter shows the close connection between Kafka's exploration of Judaism and the beginning of his career as a major writer. He drew extensively and intricately on two cultures, the German culture in which he was brought up and the specifically Jewish culture which he encountered most memorably in the Yiddish theatre, to produce a story which is a synthesis of both.Less
This chapter provides a picture of what being a Jew in Franz Kafka's Prague was actually like and discloses some of the complicated ways in which three cultures — German, Czech, and Jewish — interpenetrated in Kafka's upbringing. It also suggests how Kafka's exploration of Jewish culture was related to his breakthrough into major literary achievement with Das Urteil, the story he wrote at a single sitting on the night of September 22–3, 1912. The Jews of Prague were a small group: in 1900 they numbered 26,342. Though some had Czech as their native language, the majority spoke German and probably formed between a third and a half of the city's German-speaking community. This chapter shows the close connection between Kafka's exploration of Judaism and the beginning of his career as a major writer. He drew extensively and intricately on two cultures, the German culture in which he was brought up and the specifically Jewish culture which he encountered most memorably in the Yiddish theatre, to produce a story which is a synthesis of both.
Jane Stevenson
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198185024
- eISBN:
- 9780191714238
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198185024.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This chapter focuses on late medieval German convent culture, and its renaissance in the 15th century. It explores the impact of the Reformation: Charitas Pirckheimer and nuns' defense of ...
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This chapter focuses on late medieval German convent culture, and its renaissance in the 15th century. It explores the impact of the Reformation: Charitas Pirckheimer and nuns' defense of Catholicism, and women Protestant apologists. It also examines 15th-century Latinate laywomen, notably Margaretha Welser, and the idea of an educated woman as national ornament. The influence of Protestant exiles from Italy in the early 16th century, such as Olimpia Morata and Celio Secundo Curio, is discussed. The chapter presents the Protestant ideal of companionate marriage: Erasmus, Paul Melissus, and his wife Aemilia. An increasing tendency to educate princesses in Latin as the 16th century progressed is pointed out. Netherlandic Latinity, Dutch women humanists, especially Johanna Otho, and Petronia Lansenberg, living within a network of epistolatory connections are considered. Women's participation in alba amicorum; Elizabeth Jane Weston and other 16th-century women Latinists in central Europe; and royal and other women Latinists in Renaissance Poland are also discussed.Less
This chapter focuses on late medieval German convent culture, and its renaissance in the 15th century. It explores the impact of the Reformation: Charitas Pirckheimer and nuns' defense of Catholicism, and women Protestant apologists. It also examines 15th-century Latinate laywomen, notably Margaretha Welser, and the idea of an educated woman as national ornament. The influence of Protestant exiles from Italy in the early 16th century, such as Olimpia Morata and Celio Secundo Curio, is discussed. The chapter presents the Protestant ideal of companionate marriage: Erasmus, Paul Melissus, and his wife Aemilia. An increasing tendency to educate princesses in Latin as the 16th century progressed is pointed out. Netherlandic Latinity, Dutch women humanists, especially Johanna Otho, and Petronia Lansenberg, living within a network of epistolatory connections are considered. Women's participation in alba amicorum; Elizabeth Jane Weston and other 16th-century women Latinists in central Europe; and royal and other women Latinists in Renaissance Poland are also discussed.
Bernd Widdig
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520222908
- eISBN:
- 9780520924703
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520222908.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of their most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. This book investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during ...
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For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of their most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. This book investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. It argues that inflation, with its dynamics of massification, devaluation, and the rapid circulation of money, is an integral part of modern culture and intensifies and condenses the experience of modernity in a traumatic way.Less
For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of their most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. This book investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. It argues that inflation, with its dynamics of massification, devaluation, and the rapid circulation of money, is an integral part of modern culture and intensifies and condenses the experience of modernity in a traumatic way.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804761222
- eISBN:
- 9780804774239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804761222.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This chapter examines the roles that narrative fiction—primarily orthodox novels and novellas of contemporary Jewish life—played in creating and sustaining a vision of orthodoxy as wedded to German ...
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This chapter examines the roles that narrative fiction—primarily orthodox novels and novellas of contemporary Jewish life—played in creating and sustaining a vision of orthodoxy as wedded to German culture and ideas about modernity as it was to maintaining the continuity with Jewish tradition which orthodox leaders felt reformers had forsaken. As prominent as fiction was in Jeschurun, Der Israelit and other papers, it always occupied a subordinate position in the orthodox world, inferior to Torah and Talmud study, and ranking far beneath more traditional Jewish reading material.Less
This chapter examines the roles that narrative fiction—primarily orthodox novels and novellas of contemporary Jewish life—played in creating and sustaining a vision of orthodoxy as wedded to German culture and ideas about modernity as it was to maintaining the continuity with Jewish tradition which orthodox leaders felt reformers had forsaken. As prominent as fiction was in Jeschurun, Der Israelit and other papers, it always occupied a subordinate position in the orthodox world, inferior to Torah and Talmud study, and ranking far beneath more traditional Jewish reading material.
David Midgley
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151791
- eISBN:
- 9780191672835
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151791.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter describes the traditionally strong antagonism between stereotypical conceptions of urban and rural life, and the particular political significance with which it became invested under the ...
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This chapter describes the traditionally strong antagonism between stereotypical conceptions of urban and rural life, and the particular political significance with which it became invested under the circumstances of the Weimar Republic. The main goal is to examine how the cultural tensions of the time are reflected in the depiction of Berlin on the one hand and provincial society on the other.Less
This chapter describes the traditionally strong antagonism between stereotypical conceptions of urban and rural life, and the particular political significance with which it became invested under the circumstances of the Weimar Republic. The main goal is to examine how the cultural tensions of the time are reflected in the depiction of Berlin on the one hand and provincial society on the other.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804761222
- eISBN:
- 9780804774239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804761222.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This introductory chapter discusses the emergence of “Jewish literature” in the nineteenth century. In this period when Jews were rapidly ascending into the ranks of the middle classes, undertaking ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the emergence of “Jewish literature” in the nineteenth century. In this period when Jews were rapidly ascending into the ranks of the middle classes, undertaking projects of religious modernization, and engaging with the secular world in ways their medieval ancestors could not have fathomed, they also launched their own form of secular culture: fiction written by Jews for Jews that sought to navigate between tradition and modernity, between Jewish history and the German present, and between the fading walls of the ghetto and the promise of a new cultural identity as members of a German bourgeoisie. It is this literature that is the subject of this book. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the emergence of “Jewish literature” in the nineteenth century. In this period when Jews were rapidly ascending into the ranks of the middle classes, undertaking projects of religious modernization, and engaging with the secular world in ways their medieval ancestors could not have fathomed, they also launched their own form of secular culture: fiction written by Jews for Jews that sought to navigate between tradition and modernity, between Jewish history and the German present, and between the fading walls of the ghetto and the promise of a new cultural identity as members of a German bourgeoisie. It is this literature that is the subject of this book. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
David Midgley
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151791
- eISBN:
- 9780191672835
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151791.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter focuses on the term ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’. It explores the reasons for the rise and subsequent fall in intellectual esteem that the notion of ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’ underwent during the ...
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This chapter focuses on the term ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’. It explores the reasons for the rise and subsequent fall in intellectual esteem that the notion of ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’ underwent during the period of the Weimar Republic, and identifies the precise connotations which the term came to carry in the context of the cultural debates of the time.Less
This chapter focuses on the term ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’. It explores the reasons for the rise and subsequent fall in intellectual esteem that the notion of ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’ underwent during the period of the Weimar Republic, and identifies the precise connotations which the term came to carry in the context of the cultural debates of the time.
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226745053
- eISBN:
- 9780226745077
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226745077.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter examines German–Jewish culture through the lens of translation, beginning with Moses Mendelssohn's Bible translation and ending with the translation theory of Walter Benjamin. While ...
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This chapter examines German–Jewish culture through the lens of translation, beginning with Moses Mendelssohn's Bible translation and ending with the translation theory of Walter Benjamin. While previous scholarship has tended to conceptualize German–Jewish translation in the light of cultural integration or symbiosis, it is argued that the formulation of translation as a variety of cultural encounter conceals a number of tensions and asymmetries in the German–Jewish translation project. Benjamin's model of an interlinear Bible translation, along with Buber and Rosenzweig's attempt at creating a German Bible in which the Hebrew original would somehow be visible, can be traced to philosophical and political circumstances comparable to those that shaped Aquila's work. The “translator cultures” of Hellenism and German–Jewish modernism divested the sacred tongue of what had been its correlate: untranslatability. In this cultural context, translating the sacred necessarily produces a difficult or incomprehensible text as guarantee that translation has not succumbed to the chimera of linguistic transparency or the demands of cultural assimilation.Less
This chapter examines German–Jewish culture through the lens of translation, beginning with Moses Mendelssohn's Bible translation and ending with the translation theory of Walter Benjamin. While previous scholarship has tended to conceptualize German–Jewish translation in the light of cultural integration or symbiosis, it is argued that the formulation of translation as a variety of cultural encounter conceals a number of tensions and asymmetries in the German–Jewish translation project. Benjamin's model of an interlinear Bible translation, along with Buber and Rosenzweig's attempt at creating a German Bible in which the Hebrew original would somehow be visible, can be traced to philosophical and political circumstances comparable to those that shaped Aquila's work. The “translator cultures” of Hellenism and German–Jewish modernism divested the sacred tongue of what had been its correlate: untranslatability. In this cultural context, translating the sacred necessarily produces a difficult or incomprehensible text as guarantee that translation has not succumbed to the chimera of linguistic transparency or the demands of cultural assimilation.
Bernd Widdig
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520222908
- eISBN:
- 9780520924703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520222908.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter examines money issues and the impact of inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic from 1914 to 1923. The chapter also outlines the contents of this book. This book aims to ...
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This chapter examines money issues and the impact of inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic from 1914 to 1923. The chapter also outlines the contents of this book. This book aims to recapture the German inflation as a historical event from both a collective and an individual perspective and to emphasize the fundamental role of money in the constitution of a modern cultural and psychosocial identity. It features two larger-than-life individuals who are inextricably linked to the culture of inflation and who highlight specific aspects of the inflationary experience presents two case studies that explore specific aspects of the culture of inflation.Less
This chapter examines money issues and the impact of inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic from 1914 to 1923. The chapter also outlines the contents of this book. This book aims to recapture the German inflation as a historical event from both a collective and an individual perspective and to emphasize the fundamental role of money in the constitution of a modern cultural and psychosocial identity. It features two larger-than-life individuals who are inextricably linked to the culture of inflation and who highlight specific aspects of the inflationary experience presents two case studies that explore specific aspects of the culture of inflation.
Marianne Hirsch
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520257726
- eISBN:
- 9780520944909
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520257726.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter introduces the “idea of Czernowitz,” which featured the adherence to German as its central ingredient. It examines the ideologues of Romanianization, which used the educational system as ...
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This chapter introduces the “idea of Czernowitz,” which featured the adherence to German as its central ingredient. It examines the ideologues of Romanianization, which used the educational system as the primary institutional medium to change the predominantly multiethnic Northern Bukowina into a province populated mostly by Romanians. The chapter then discusses the Jewish resistance to Romanianization and Romanian anti-Semitism. It also studies the story of “Die Buche,” which symbolized the unexpected changes of Bukowina's German-Jewish culture during the interwar period.Less
This chapter introduces the “idea of Czernowitz,” which featured the adherence to German as its central ingredient. It examines the ideologues of Romanianization, which used the educational system as the primary institutional medium to change the predominantly multiethnic Northern Bukowina into a province populated mostly by Romanians. The chapter then discusses the Jewish resistance to Romanianization and Romanian anti-Semitism. It also studies the story of “Die Buche,” which symbolized the unexpected changes of Bukowina's German-Jewish culture during the interwar period.
David Midgley
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151791
- eISBN:
- 9780191672835
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151791.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter is about theatre rather than drama, focusing on its role as the most public medium of literary communication during the period of the Weimar Republic. It shows how the various models of ...
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This chapter is about theatre rather than drama, focusing on its role as the most public medium of literary communication during the period of the Weimar Republic. It shows how the various models of theatre developed during the Weimar period relate historically to each other, and brings out the senses in which even a self-consciously critical style of theatre could run the risk of becoming aligned with the orthodoxies of a particular political subculture. Only in the light of such an inquiry is it possible to assess the scope for a politically aware theatre to sustain and encourage critical openness in the circumstances of the Weimar Republic.Less
This chapter is about theatre rather than drama, focusing on its role as the most public medium of literary communication during the period of the Weimar Republic. It shows how the various models of theatre developed during the Weimar period relate historically to each other, and brings out the senses in which even a self-consciously critical style of theatre could run the risk of becoming aligned with the orthodoxies of a particular political subculture. Only in the light of such an inquiry is it possible to assess the scope for a politically aware theatre to sustain and encourage critical openness in the circumstances of the Weimar Republic.
Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823228263
- eISBN:
- 9780823237142
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823228263.003.0029
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter discusses “My 1933”, the last work written by Hermann Levin Goldschmidt about the German Jewry. The central text of this collection represents a different kind of self-assertion achieved ...
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This chapter discusses “My 1933”, the last work written by Hermann Levin Goldschmidt about the German Jewry. The central text of this collection represents a different kind of self-assertion achieved through a searing act of self-examination. Written in the form of an inner dialogue, Goldschmidt addresses to himself the challenging questions faced by his generation of survivors. Instead of combining accident and destiny that would leave German Jewish culture behind as a historical relic, Goldschmidt took the implicit and explicit voices of critique directed at German Jews in post-war, making it part of an inner debate.Less
This chapter discusses “My 1933”, the last work written by Hermann Levin Goldschmidt about the German Jewry. The central text of this collection represents a different kind of self-assertion achieved through a searing act of self-examination. Written in the form of an inner dialogue, Goldschmidt addresses to himself the challenging questions faced by his generation of survivors. Instead of combining accident and destiny that would leave German Jewish culture behind as a historical relic, Goldschmidt took the implicit and explicit voices of critique directed at German Jews in post-war, making it part of an inner debate.
