Brothers and Strangers by Steven E Aschheim

Brothers and Strangers by Steven E Aschheim

Brothers and Strangers traces the history of German Jewish attitudes, policies, and stereotypical images toward Eastern European Jews, demonstrating the ways in which the historic rupture between Eastern and Western Jewry developed as a function of modernism and its imperatives. By the 1880s most German Jews had inherited and used such negative images to symbolize rejection of their own ghetto past and to emphasize the contrast between modern enlightened Jewry and its half-Asian counterpart. Moreover, stereotypes of the ghetto and the Eastern Jew figured prominently in the growth and disposition of German anti-Semitism. Not everyone shared these negative preconceptions, however, and over the years a competing post-liberal image emerged of the Ostjude as cultural hero. Brothers and Strangers examines the genesis, development, and consequences of these changing forces in their often complex cultural, political, and intellectual contexts.

Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University, Israel; Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

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ISBN 13	9780299091101
ISBN 10	0299091104
Title	Brothers and Strangers
Author	Steven E Aschheim
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Wisconsin Press
Year published	1999-03-14
Number of pages	304
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