The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity 022658108X, 9780226581088

As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers,

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The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity
022658108X, 9780226581088

As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers,

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As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers,

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This book encourages a debate over musical modernity; a debate considering the question whether an examination of the hi

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Illuminating the tensions between theory, history, and interpretation in contemporary aesthetics, Peter McCormick traces

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Writing the Jewish Self explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story o

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For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the plac

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Founded in 1841, the London-based Jewish Chronicle is the world’s oldest continuously circulating Jewish newspaper. Sinc

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United State

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