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