Entangled Entertainers

Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-030-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg studies

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 the cultural history of the era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hödl, Klaus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1. Jews in Viennese Popular Culture Around 1900 as Research Topic

Chapter 2. Jewish Volkssänger and Musical Performers in Vienna Around 1900

Chapter 3. Jewishness and the Viennese Volkssänger

Chapter 4. Jewish Spaces of Retreat at the Turn of the 20th Century

Chapter 5. From Difference to Similarity

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hödl, Klaus
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).