The Invisible Jewish Budapest: Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle
A groundbreaking, brilliant urban history of a vibrant Central European metropolis—Budapest—and of its now-forgotten assimilated Jews, who largely created its modernist culture in the decades before World War I.

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The Invisible Jewish Budapest: Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle
A groundbreaking, brilliant urban history of a vibrant Central European metropolis—Budapest—and of its now-forgotten assimilated Jews, who largely created its modernist culture in the decades before World War I.

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The Invisible Jewish Budapest: Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle

The Invisible Jewish Budapest: Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle

by Mary Gluck
The Invisible Jewish Budapest: Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle

The Invisible Jewish Budapest: Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle

by Mary Gluck

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Overview

A groundbreaking, brilliant urban history of a vibrant Central European metropolis—Budapest—and of its now-forgotten assimilated Jews, who largely created its modernist culture in the decades before World War I.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780299307707
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 04/12/2016
Series: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
Edition description: 1
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mary Gluck is a professor of history and Judaic studies at Brown University. She is the author of Georg Lukács and His Generation, 1900-1918 and Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations                
Acknowledgments                 
 
Introduction: Jewish Budapest as a Symbolic Space            
1 Cultural Visions of the Emerging City                   
2 The Jewish Question and the Paradox of Hungarian Liberalism                
3 A Jewish Politician in a Divided Public Space                   
4 The Jewish Humor Magazine and Collective Self-Parody             
5 The Scandal of the Budapest Orpheum                  
6 Critical Cross-Dressing and Jewish Bourgeois Identity                 
Epilogue: The Waning of Jewish Budapest after World War I                     
 
Notes              
Index
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