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Authors: Sander L. Gilman
ISBN-13: 9781403965608, ISBN-10: 1403965609
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: REV

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Author Biography: Sander L. Gilman

Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago and Director of the Humanites Laboratory. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over sixty books. He lives in Chicago.

Book Synopsis

In a series of interlinked essays, Sander Gilman reimagines Jewish identity as that of people living on a frontier rather than in a diaspora.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The Frontier as a Model for Jewish History1
1The First Comic Film about the Shoah: Jurek Becker and Cultural Opposition within the GDR35
2Is Life Beautiful? Can the Shoah Be Funny? On the Frontier between Acceptable and Unacceptable Representations of the Holocaust in Some Newer and Older Films65
3Smoking Jews on the Frontier95
4A French Frontier: Proust's Nose111
5A Dream of Jewishness on the Frontier: Kafka's Tumor and "A Country Doctor"129
6Private Knowledge: Jewish Illnesses and the Process of Identity Formation149
7"We're Not Jews": Imagining Jewish History and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary Multicultural Literature169
Notes207
Supplemental Reading235
Index239

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