Melancholy Pride: Nation, Race, and Gender in the German Literature of Cultural Zionism

by Mark H. Gelber

This study focuses on the emergence of a modern Jewish national literature and culture within the parameters of Zionism in Vienna and Berlin at the turn of the last century. Prominent figures associated with early modern Zionism, including Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, and Martin Buber, were also writers and literary or cultural icons within the Central European, Germanic-Austrian cultural environment of the fin-de-si cle. More important, Cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3484651237
• ISBN13: 9783484651234
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary