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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782427203321

Autore

Reitter Paul

Titolo

The anti-journalist [[electronic resource] ] : Karl Kraus and Jewish self-fashioning in fin-de-siècle Europe / / Paul Reitter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-96629-0

9786611966294

0-226-70972-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Studies in German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Disciplina

838/.91209

Soggetti

Jews - Identity - Europe - History - 19th century

Antisemitism in the press - Europe - History - 19th century

German literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism

Jewish press - Europe - History - 19th century

Jewish journalists - Europe - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

All that is solid melts into ink -- German Jews and the writing of modern life -- Karl Kraus and the Jewish self-hatred question -- Mirror-man -- Messianic journalism? Benjamin and Scholem read Die Fackel -- Conclusion: The afterlife of anti-journalism.

Sommario/riassunto

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which brought him a reputation as the quintessential self-hating Jew. The Anti-Journalist overturns this view with unprecedented force and sophistication, showing how Kraus's criticisms form the center of a radical model of German-Jewish self-fashioning, and how that model developed in concert with Kraus's modernist journalistic styl