Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity
«'Moving beyond the stereotypes, this brilliant, wide-ranging, innovative, meticulously researched and very readable history of how Jews were targeted as consumers and Jewish consumer practices sheds new light on Jews' relation to modernity. Reuveni takes the reader from Europe to the United States and Israel, showing how buying, or refusing to buy, goods had political, social and cultural consequences.' Leora Auslander, University of Chicago»
Antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as capitalists have hindered research into the economic dimension of the Jewish past. The figure of the Jew as trader and financier dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781107648500
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«'Moving beyond the stereotypes, this brilliant, wide-ranging, innovative, meticulously researched and very readable history of how Jews were targeted as consumers and Jewish consumer practices sheds new light on Jews' relation to modernity. Reuveni takes the reader from Europe to the United States and Israel, showing how buying, or refusing to buy, goods had political, social and cultural consequences.' Leora Auslander, University of Chicago»
«'In this pioneering book Gideon Reuveni rereads the history of Jewish life in Weimar Germany from the fresh perspective of consumerism, with an eye toward how daily habits of getting, spending, eating and furnishing were inseparable from larger questions of belonging, integration and exclusion amid the tumultuous conditions of interwar Germany.' Paul Betts, St Anthony's College, Oxford»