Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America
Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America

Author: Paul Lerner

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-22

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 3030889602

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This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe and North America. Drawing on innovative, original research into this new and challenging field, the volume brings Jewish studies and the history and theory of consumer culture into dialogue with each other. Its chapters explore Jewish businesspeople's development of niche commercial practices in several transnational contexts; the imagining, marketing, and realization of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine through consumer goods and strategies; associations between Jews, luxury, and gender in multiple contexts; and the political dimensions of consumer choice. Together the essays in this volume show how the study of consumption enriches our understanding of modern Jewish history and how a focus on consumer goods and practices illuminates the study of Jewish religious observance, ethnic identities, gender formations, and immigrant trajectories across the globe.

Germany On Their Minds
Germany On Their Minds

Author: Anne C. Schenderlein

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2019-10-03

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1789200059

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Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, approximately ninety thousand German Jews fled their homeland and settled in the United States, prior to that nation closing its borders to Jewish refugees. And even though many of them wanted little to do with Germany, the circumstances of the Second World War and the postwar era meant that engagement of some kind was unavoidable—whether direct or indirect, initiated within the community itself or by political actors and the broader German public. This book carefully traces these entangled histories on both sides of the Atlantic, demonstrating the remarkable extent to which German Jews and their former fellow citizens helped to shape developments from the Allied war effort to the course of West German democratization.

Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema

Author: Barbara Hales

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2020-11-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1789208734

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The burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere for Jewish “outsiders” to shape mainstream culture. The chapters collected in this volume deploy new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to understanding the significant involvement of German Jews in Weimar cinema. Reflecting upon different conceptions of Jewishness – as religion, ethnicity, social role, cultural code, or text – these studies offer a wide-ranging exploration of an often overlooked aspect of German film history.

Social History of German Jews
Social History of German Jews

Author: Miriam Rürup

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2024-05-01

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1805394541

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Tracing the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, Miriam Rürup follows their ascent into the middle and upper middle classes through repeated experiences of setbacks but also of self-assertion. In doing so it is explained how Jewish life changed under the auspices of emancipation and what impact these changes had on the demographic and social profile of the Jewish minority. With a focus on the daily interactions between Jews and other Germans when choosing a home, profession, or school, for example, Social History of German Jews shows the contrasting processes of integration and exclusion in a new light.

Pledges of Jewish Allegiance
Pledges of Jewish Allegiance

Author: David Ellenson

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2012-01-18

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0804781036

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Since the late 1700s, when the Jewish community ceased to be a semiautonomous political unit in Western Europe and the United States and individual Jews became integrated—culturally, socially, and politically—into broader society, questions surrounding Jewish status and identity have occupied a prominent and contentious place in Jewish legal discourse. This book examines a wide array of legal opinions written by nineteenth- and twentieth-century orthodox rabbis in Europe, the United States, and Israel. It argues that these rabbis' divergent positions—based on the same legal precedents—demonstrate that they were doing more than delivering legal opinions. Instead, they were crafting public policy for Jewish society in response to Jews' social and political interactions as equals with the non-Jewish persons in whose midst they dwelled. Pledges of Jewish Allegiance prefaces its analysis of modern opinions with a discussion of the classical Jewish sources upon which they draw.

The Consuming Temple
The Consuming Temple

Author: Paul Lerner

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2015-04-09

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 150170012X

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Paul Lerner explores German anxieties about the department store and the widespread belief that they posed hidden dangers both to the individuals and to the nation as a whole.

Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oxford
Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oxford

Author: Sabine Chaouche

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 3030463877

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This book explores students’ consumer practices and material desires in nineteenth-century Oxford. Consumerism surged among undergraduates in the 1830s and decreased by contrast from the 1860s as students learned to practice restraint and make wiser choices, putting a brake on past excessive consumption habits. This study concentrates on the minority of debtors, the daily lives of undergraduates, and their social and economic environment. It scrutinises the variety of goods that were on offer, paying special attention to their social and symbolic uses and meanings. Through emulation and self-display, undergraduate culture impacted the formation of male identities and spending habits. Using Oxford students as a case study, this book opens new pathways in the history of consumption and capitalism, revealing how youth consumer culture intertwined with the rise of competition among tradesmen and university reforms in the 1850s and 1860s.

Acknowledging Consumption
Acknowledging Consumption

Author: Daniel Miller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-09-20

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 1134843119

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A multi-disciplinary overview providing new theories, critical analyses and the latest reasearch on this very fashionable topic. Includes chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, economics, history, sociology and many more areas.

The Rise of Marketing and Market Research
The Rise of Marketing and Market Research

Author: H. Berghoff

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-10-29

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 1137071281

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This volume serves up a combination of broad questions, theoretical approaches, and manifold case studies to explore how people have sought to understand markets and thereby reduce risk, whether they have approached this challenge with a practical view based on their own business acumen or used the tools of scholarship.

The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881

Author: Israel Bartal

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2011-06-07

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0812200810

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In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence and the imposition in Russia of strong anti-Semitic legislation. In the years between, a traditional society accustomed to an autonomous way of life would be transformed into one much more open to its surrounding cultures, yet much more confident of its own nationalist identity. In The Jews of Eastern Europe, Israel Bartal traces this transformation and finds in it the roots of Jewish modernity.