By: Benjamin Maria Baader (Editor), Sharon Gillerman (Editor), Paul Lerner (Editor)

Hardcover

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Stereotyped as delicate and feeble intellectuals, Jewish men in German-speaking lands in fact developed a rich and complex spectrum of male norms, models, and behaviors. Jewish Masculinities explores conceptions and experiences of masculinity among Jews in Germany from the 16th through the late 20th century as well as emigrants to North America, Palestine, and Israel. The volume examines the different worlds of students, businessmen, mohels, ritual slaughterers, rabbis, performers, and others, shedding new light on the challenge for Jewish men of balancing German citizenship and cultural affiliation with Jewish communal solidarity, religious practice, and identity.

"A valuable addition to the growing field of Jewish gender history." Derek Penslar, University of Toronto

1. Introduction: German Jews, Gender, and History / Benjamin M. Baader, Sharon Gillerman and Paul Lerner; 2. Respectability Tested: Male Ideals, Sexuality, and Honor in Early Modern Ashkenazi Jewry / Andreas Gotzmann; 3. Jewish Difference and the Feminine Spirit of Judaism in Mid Nineteenth-Century Germany / Benjamin Maria Baader; 4. Moral, Clean Men of the Jewish Faith: Jewish Rituals and their Male Practitioners, 1843-1914 / Robin Judd; 5. A Soft Hero: Male Jewish Identity in Imperial Germany through the Autobiography of Aron Liebeck / Stefanie Schuler-Springorum; 6. Performing Masculinity: Jewish Students and the Student Honor Code at German Universities / Lisa Featheringill Zwicker; 7. Whose Body Is It Anyway? Hermaphrodites, Gays, and Jews in N. O. Body's Germany / Sander L. Gilman; 8. Towards a Theory of the Modern Hebrew Handshake: the Conduct of Muscle Judaism / Etan Bloom; 9. Friedrich Gundolf and Jewish Conservative Bohemianism in the Weimar Republic / Ann Goldberg; 10. A Kinder Gentler Strongman? Siegmund Breitbart in Eastern Europe / Sharon Gillerman; 11. Family Matters: German-Jewish Masculinities Among Nazi-Era Refugees / Judith Gerson Notes; Index

ISBN: 9780253002136
ISBN-10: 0253002133
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 288
Published: 6th June 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Dimensions (cm): 22.860 x 15.240
Weight (kg): 0.522