Description
Budapest at the fin de siecle was famed and emulated for its cosmopolitan urban culture and nightlife. It was also the second-largest Jewish city in Europe. Mary Gluck delves into the popular culture of Budapest's coffee houses, music halls, and humor magazines to uncover the enormous influence of assimilated Jews in creating modernist Budapest between 1867 and 1914. She explores the paradox of Budapest in this era: because much of the Jewish population embraced and promoted a secular, metropolitan culture, their influence as Jews was both profound and invisible.
About the Author
Mary Gluck is a professor of history and Judaic studies at Brown University, USA. She is the author of Georg Lukacs and His Generation, 1900-1918 and Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris.
Reviews
Gluck artfully deploys such materials - from jokes to cartoons - to analyse a community that faced simultaneous stresses from internal ambivalence and external anti-Semitism" - Larry Wolff, The Times Literary Supplement.
"The Invisible Jewish Budapest has . . . been hailed as a significant addition to scholarly examinations of Jewish contributions to the emergence of modern urban centers. . . . [Its] enjoyable prose, fluid translations, relevant illustrations, and devotion to recreating the era via a dazzling spectrum of periodicals, newspapers, and travelogues has earned it a place among cultural histories of modern Hungary."-Hungarian Cultural Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9780299307707
Author Mary Gluck
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 520g
About the Author
Mary Gluck is a professor of history and Judaic studies at Brown University, USA. She is the author of Georg Lukacs and His Generation, 1900-1918 and Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris.
Reviews
Gluck artfully deploys such materials - from jokes to cartoons - to analyse a community that faced simultaneous stresses from internal ambivalence and external anti-Semitism" - Larry Wolff, The Times Literary Supplement.
"The Invisible Jewish Budapest has . . . been hailed as a significant addition to scholarly examinations of Jewish contributions to the emergence of modern urban centers. . . . [Its] enjoyable prose, fluid translations, relevant illustrations, and devotion to recreating the era via a dazzling spectrum of periodicals, newspapers, and travelogues has earned it a place among cultural histories of modern Hungary."-Hungarian Cultural Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9780299307707
Author Mary Gluck
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 520g
