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Jewish masculinities [electronic resource]

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Stereotyped as delicate and feeble intellectuals, Jewish men in German-speaking lands in fact developed a rich and complex spectrum of male norms, models, and behaviors. Jewish Masculinities explores conceptions and experiences of masculinity among Jews in Germany from the 16th through the late 20th century as well as emigrants to North America, Palestine, and Israel. The volume examines the different worlds of students, businessmen, mohels, ritual slaughterers, rabbis, performers, and others, shedding new light on the challenge for Jewish men of balancing German citizenship and cultural af

Title Jewish masculinities [electronic resource] : German Jews, gender, and history / edited by Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman, and Paul Lerner.
Publisher Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press
Creation Date 2012
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: German Jews, Gender, and History
1. Respectability Tested: Male Ideals, Sexuality, and Honor in Early Modern Ashkenazi Jewry
2. Jewish Difference and the Feminine Spirit of Judaism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany
3. Moral, Clean Men of the Jewish Faith: Jewish Rituals and Their Male Practitioners, 1843-1914
4. A Soft Hero: Male Jewish Identity in Imperial Germany through the Autobiography of Aron Liebeck
5. Performing Masculinity: Jewish Students and the Honor Code at German Universities
6. Whose Body Is It Anyway?: Hermaphrodites, Gays, and Jews in N. O. Body's Germany7. Toward a Theory of the Modern Hebrew Handshake: The Conduct of Muscle Judaism
8. Friedrich Gundolf and Jewish Conservative Bohemianism in the Weimar Republic
9. A Kinder Gentler Strongman?: Siegmund Breitbart in Eastern Europe
10. Family Matters: German Jewish Masculinities among Nazi Era Refugees
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Extent 1 online resource (255 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010718855605171
MARC RECORDS
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