Viennese Jewish Modernism

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271034096

Freud, Hofmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann, and Schnitzler

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By Abigail Gillman
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Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Origins of Viennese Jewish Modernism

Part 1: Genres of Memory

1. Freud’s Modernism in A Childhood Memory of Leonardo da Vinci (1910), “The Moses of Michelangelo” (1914), and Moses and Monotheism (1938)

2. Hofmannsthal’s Jewish Pantomime: Der Schüler (The Student, 1901)

Part 2: Hybrid Plots, Virtual Jews

3. How a Viennese Modernist Becomes a Jew: Beer-Hofmann’s Der Tod Georgs (The Death of Georg, 1900)

4. Anatomies of Failure: Jewish Tragicomedy in Schnitzler’s Der Weg ins Freie (The Road into the Open, 1908) and Professor Bernhardi (1912)

Part 3: Performing the Hebrew Bible

5. Mythic Memory Theater and the Problem of Jewish Orientalism in Hofmannsthal’s Ballet Josephslegende (Legend of Joseph, 1912)

6. The Forgotten Modernism of Biblical Drama: Beer-Hofmann’s Die Historie von König David (The History of King David, 1918–33)

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index



“[Gillman] has created a fine de siècle for our own time, a reinterpretive historical hologram like that of the writers she discusses.”

—Margaret Olin, Modern Philology

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