LEADER 04256nam 2200721 450 001 9910460769503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0011-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501700125 035 $a(CKB)3710000000410445 035 $a(EBL)3138731 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001483886 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12475222 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001483886 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11430612 035 $a(PQKB)10110062 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510457 035 $a(OCoLC)1080551539 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58422 035 $a(DE-B1597)478317 035 $a(OCoLC)908447929 035 $a(OCoLC)979781202 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501700125 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138731 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138731 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11052031 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL782777 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000410445 100 $a20140820d2015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe consuming temple $eJews, department stores, and the consumer revolution in Germany, 1880-1940 /$fPaul Lerner 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-5017-0012-X 311 $a0-8014-5286-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aJerusalem's terrain: the department store and its discontents in imperial Germany -- Dream worlds in motion: circulation, cosmopolitanism, and the Jewish question -- Uncanny encounters: the Thief, the Shop Girl, and the Department Store King -- Beyond the consuming temple: Jewish dissimilation and consumer modernity in provincial Germany -- The consuming fire: fantasies of destruction in German politics and culture. 330 $aDepartment stores in Germany, like their predecessors in France, Britain, and the United States, generated great excitement when they appeared at the end of the nineteenth century. Their sumptuous displays, abundant products, architectural innovations, and prodigious scale inspired widespread fascination and even awe; at the same time, however, many Germans also greeted the rise of the department store with considerable unease. In The Consuming Temple, Paul Lerner explores the complex German reaction to department stores and the widespread belief that they posed hidden dangers both to the individuals, especially women, who frequented them and to the nation as a whole.Drawing on fiction, political propaganda, commercial archives, visual culture, and economic writings, Lerner provides multiple perspectives on the department store, placing it in architectural, gender-historical, commercial, and psychiatric contexts. Noting that Jewish entrepreneurs founded most German department stores, he argues that Jews and "Jewishness" stood at the center of the consumer culture debate from the 1880s, when the stores first appeared, through the latter 1930s, when they were "Aryanized" by the Nazis. German responses to consumer culture and the Jewish question were deeply interwoven, and the "Jewish department store," framed as an alternative and threatening secular temple, a shrine to commerce and greed, was held responsible for fundamental changes that transformed urban experience and challenged national traditions in Germany's turbulent twentieth century. 606 $aConsumption (Economics)$zGermany$xHistory 606 $aConsumer behavior$zGermany$xHistory 606 $aDepartment stores$zGermany$xHistory 606 $aJews$zGermany$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aJews$zGermany$xSocial conditions$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aConsumption (Economics)$xHistory. 615 0$aConsumer behavior$xHistory. 615 0$aDepartment stores$xHistory. 615 0$aJews$xSocial conditions 615 0$aJews$xSocial conditions 676 $a339.4/7094309034 700 $aLerner$b Paul Frederick$0689773 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460769503321 996 $aThe consuming temple$92461465 997 $aUNINA