Klaus Hödl

Entangled Entertainers

Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Buch

Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was the product of the city's Jewish and non-Jewish residents alike. While these two communities interacted in a variety of ways to their mutual benefit, Jewish culture was also inevitably shaped by the city's persistent bouts of antisemitism. This fascinating study explores how Jewish artists, performers, and impresarios reacted to prejudice, showing how they articulated identity through performative engagement rather than anchoring it in origin and descent. In this way, they attempted to transcend a racialized identity even as they indelibly inscribed their Jewish existence into… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78920-030-0
EAN: 9781789200300
Produktnummer: 30002121
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 196 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.5 cm 445 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 445

Über den Autor

Klaus Hödl is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Graz, Austria. His publications include Kultur und Gedächtnis (2012) and Wiener Juden - jüdische Wiener: Identität, Gedächtnis und Performanz im 19. Jahrhundert (2006).