The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity

by Jonathan Freedman

Book Overview

As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and literature, philosophic pessimism, and an interest in nonnormative sexualities, decadence was also a smear, whereby Jews were viewed as the source of social and cultural decline. In The Jewish Decadence,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022658108X
• ISBN13: 9780226581088
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"