Gideon Reuveni

Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the intersection between consumption, identity and Jewish history in Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781107011304
• ISBN-10: 1107011302
• Artikelnr.: 48063364

Autorenporträt

Gideon Reuveni is Reader in History and Director of the Centre for German-Jewish studies at the University of Sussex. His central research and teaching interest is the cultural and social history of modern European and Jewish history.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Narratives of Belonging: 1. Producers, consumers, Jews and antisemitism in German historiography
2. Ethnic marketing and consumer ambivalence in Weimar Germany
3. The Jewish question and the changing regimes of consumption
4. What makes a Jew happy? Longings, belongings and the spirit of modern consumerism
Part II. The Politics of Jewish Consumption: 5. Emancipation through consumption
6. Boycott, economic rationality and Jewish consumers in interwar Germany
7. Advertising national belonging
8. The consumption of Jewish politics
Part III. Homo Judaicus Consumerus: 9. The cost of being Jewish
10. Place and space of Jewish consumption
11. The world of Jewish goods
12. Spending power and its discontents
13. Beyond consumerism: the bridge, the door and the cultural economy approach to Jewish history.