Ost und West
Ost und West ("East and West") was a German magazine meant to bridge the German Jewish world and the Eastern European Jewish world.[1] The magazine, headquartered in Berlin, operated from 1901 to 1923.[2]
History[]
It was the first "ethnic magazine" in human history and the first Jewish (DE).[3] The editors intended to reverse assimilation of Jewish people into the wider German society and David Brenner, author of "Neglected 'Women's' Texts and Contexts: Vicki Baum's Jewish Ghetto Stories," stated that the editors hoped to accomplish this "by constructing an ethnic identity that included East European or "Eastern" forms of Jewishness."[2]
David A. Brenner, author of German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka's kitsch, wrote that the magazine is an "ideal" source for evaluating the reception to Yiddish theatre in Germany especially since "studies of popular Berlin theater, including Yiddish-language theater, are few and far between".[4]
References[]
- ^ The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890-1990, Aschheim, Steven E. (Issue 2 of The Weird and Horrible Library, Volume 2 of Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism). University of California Press, 1994, pages 96-97. ISBN 0520914805, 9780520914803.
- ^ a b Brenner, "Neglected 'Women's' Texts and Contexts: Vicki Baum's Jewish Ghetto Stories," p. 103.
- ^ Brenner, "Neglected 'Women's' Texts and Contexts: Vicki Baum's Jewish Ghetto Stories," p. 102.
- ^ Brenner, German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka's kitsch, p. 14.
Further reading[]
- Brenner, David A. Marketing Identities: The Invention of Jewish Ethnicity in Ost und West. Wayne State University Press, 1998. ISBN 0814326846, 9780814326848.
- Digitized files for Ost and West can be found at the Judaica Division Goethe University /University Library, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Vollständig digitalisierte Zeitschrift in Compact Memory
- Brenner, David A. "Neglected 'Women's' Texts and Contexts: Vicki Baum's Jewish Ghetto Stories." In: Friedrichsmeyer, Sara and Patricia Herminghouse (editors). Women in German Yearbook. University of Nebraska Press, June 1, 1998. ISBN 080329803X, 9780803298033.
- Brenner, David A. German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka's kitsch. Taylor & Francis US, July 8, 2008. ISBN 0203894030, 9780203894033.
- 1901 establishments in Germany
- 1923 disestablishments in Germany
- Cultural magazines published in Germany
- German-language magazines
- Jewish magazines
- Magazines established in 1901
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- Magazines published in Berlin