BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Identifying (with) German-Jewish popular culture; 1 BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW, LAUGHTER AND TEARS: Making Yiddish theater "respectable" in turn-of-the-century Jewish Berlin; 2 "SCHLEMIEL, SHLIMAZEL": A proto-postcolonialist satire of "Jews," "Blacks," and "Germans"; 3 A GERMAN-JEWISH HERMAPHRODITE: Or what sexology contributed to B'nai B'rith; 4 FRANZ'S FOLK(LORE): Kafka's Jewish father complex; 5 POGROM IN ... BERLIN?: Working through the Weimar Jewish experience in popular fiction
Summary
Using modern social theory, David Brenner examines how German-Jewish identity was influenced by the production and consumption of popular culture
