Overview
- Explores the meaning of consumption in Jewish lives in various consumer cultures in Europe and North America
- Combines approaches to Jewish studies and the history and theory of consumer culture
- Investigates Jewish businesspeople's development of commercial practice in several transnational contexts
Part of the book series: Worlds of Consumption (WC)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Jews, Retail Cultures, and Modern Commerce in Europe and North America
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Jewish Questions, German Questions, and the Politics and Meaning of Consumption in the Modern World
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About this book
This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe and North America. Drawing on innovative, original research into this new and challenging field, the volume brings Jewish studies and the history and theory of consumer culture into dialogue with each other. Its chapters explore Jewish businesspeople's development of niche commercial practices in several transnational contexts; the imagining, marketing, and realization of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine through consumer goods and strategies; associations between Jews, luxury, and gender in multiple contexts; and the political dimensions of consumer choice. Together the essays in this volume show how the study of consumption enriches our understanding of modern Jewish history and how a focus on consumer goods and practices illuminates the study of Jewish religious observance, ethnic identities, gender formations, and immigrant trajectories across the globe.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paul Lerner is Professor of History at the University of Southern California, USA, where he directs the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies. He is the author of The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940.
Uwe Spiekermann (uwe-spiekermann.com) is Privatdozent at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His research interests include the history of consumption, retailing, nutrition, and knowledge. The most recent of his 13 books is Künstliche Kost: Ernährung in Deutschland, 1840 bis heute.
Anne Schenderlein is Managing Director of the Dahlem Humanities Center at Freie Universität Berlin. Before that, she was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington. She is the author of Germany on their Minds? German Jewish Refugees and their Relationships to Germany, 1933–1938.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America
Editors: Paul Lerner, Uwe Spiekermann, Anne Schenderlein
Series Title: Worlds of Consumption
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88960-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88959-3Published: 23 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88962-3Published: 24 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88960-9Published: 22 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2945-6010
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6029
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 310
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Germany and Central Europe, US History, Jewish Cultural Studies, Cultural History, Economic History