Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity (Stanford Studies in Jewish H... Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................ix
List of Illustrations....................xiv
Introduction. When Rabbis Became Novelists: The Emergence of Jewish Literature in Nineteenth-Century Germany....................1
1. Under the Sword of the Spanish Inquisition: The Sephardic Legacy and the Making of Middlebrow Classics....................26
2. Leopold Kompert and the Pleasures of Nostalgia: Ghetto Fiction and the Creation of a Usable Past....................72
3. Middlebrow Culture in Pursuit of Romance: Love, Fiction, and the Virtues of Marrying In....................111
4. Middlebrow Fiction and the Making of Modern Orthodoxy....................157
Concluding Remarks....................201
Notes....................209
Index....................251