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Die deutsch-jüdische Symbiose wird hier als ein historischer Vorgang analysiert, der nur unter den besonderen Umständen der Entstehung des Bildungsbürgertums und seiner Geschichte innerhalb der deutschen "Misere" möglich war. Ohne geschlossene Nation, ohne verbindende Hochsprache und gegen die Vormacht der französischen Kultur wurde ein Projekt "deutsche Nation" als geistige und ethische Zielvorstellung entworfen, in dem viele gebildete Juden Ähnlichkeiten zum eigenen Nationen-Bild erkennen konnten. Von Beginn an spalteten sich die Zielvorstellungen in deutsch-nationalistische und europäisch-internationalistische "Linien", die beide eine spezifische Attraktivität für Juden hatten. Das Bildungsbürgertum, von der politischen Mitverantwortung ausgeschlossen, definierte sich als politikfern und geistig; eine Auseinandersetzung mit den antijüdischen Tendenzen lehnte es ab, weshalb Symbiose und Antijudaismus in Deutschland nebeneinander vorhanden sein konnten. Auf breites Material gestützt wird die Geschichte der Symbiose verfolgt bis zu der Möglichkeit ihres Endes. Diese ergab sich durch die Internationalisierung der modernen Kunst ab 1900 einerseits, und durch den wenig später beginnenden Zionismus andererseits. In der Internationalisierung, die nach dem 1. Weltkrieg den Beitritt Deutschlands in die Völkergemeinschaft eröffnete, wären die "deutsche" und die "jüdische" Frage lösbar geworden, im Zionismus sollte die Symbiose wieder rückgängig gemacht werden. Der Nationalsozialismus beendete diese Möglichkeiten in der Vernichtung des europäischen Judentums.

Jews --- Nationalism --- Intellectual life. --- Cultural assimilation --- History. --- Germany --- Ethnic relations.

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Immigrants --- War and society --- Soldiers --- Immigrants --- Soldats --- Cultural assimilation --- Intégration --- Great Britain --- Armed Forces --- Minorities.

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"This book explores how lowrider car culture allows Mexican Americans to alter the urban landscape and make a place for themselves in an often segregated society"--

Automobiles --- Lowriders --- Mexican Americans --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Societies, etc. --- Cultural assimilation. --- Social life and customs.

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Congratulations to Adriana Brodsky and Raanan Rein whose edited volume has been chosen as the winner of the 2013 Latin American Jewish Studies Association Book Prize! The New Jewish Argentina aims at filling in important lacunae in the existing historiography of Jewish Argentines. Moving away from the political history of the organized community, most articles are devoted to social and cultural history, including unaffiliated Jews, women and gender, criminals, printing presses and book stores. These essays, written by scholars from various countries, consider the tensions between the national and the trans-national and offer a mosaic of identities which is relevant to all interested in Jewish history, Argentine history and students of ethnicity and diaspora. This collection problematizes the existing image of Jewish-Argentines and looks at Jews not just as persecuted ethnics, idealized agricultural workers, or as political actors in Zionist politics.  'This book is a must-read for students and scholars interested in immigration to Latin America, Ethnic History, and Jewish Studies, but its readership could extend to anybody who is interested in this chapter of social and cultural history.' Ariana Huberman, Haverford College This book is also available in paperback.

Jews --- Jews --- Jews --- Jews --- Jews --- Cultural assimilation --- History. --- Identity. --- Intellectual life. --- Social life and customs. --- Argentina --- Ethnic relations.

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"The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred over the last 100 years or more, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the decades with this dynamic force in their midst, and what these terms were, is the story at the heart of this text. Masses of Europeans have been enthralled by the real or imaginary prospects coming out of the USA. Important minorities were at times deeply upset by them. Sometime the roles were reversed or shaken up. But no-one could be indifferent for long. Inspiration, provocation, myth, menace, model: all these categories and many more have been deployed to try to cope with the Americans. Attitudes and stereotypes have emerged, intellectual resources have been mobilised, positions and policies developed: all trying to explain and deal with the kind of radiant supremacy the Americans built in the course of the twentieth century. David Ellwood combines political, economic, and cultural themes, suggesting that American mass culture is a distinctively incisive form of American power over time. The book is structured in three parts; a separation based on the proposition that America's influence as a decisive force for or against innovation was present most conspicuously after Europe's three greatest military-political conflicts of the contemporary era: the Great War, World War II, and the Cold War. It concludes with the emotional upsurge in Europe which greeted the arrival of Obama on the world scene, suggesting that in spite of all the disappointments and frictions of the years, the US still retained its privileged place as a source of inspiration for the future across the Western world."--Publisher's website

#KVHA:American Studies --- #KVHA:Cultuurgeschiedenis; Verenigde Staten --- #KVHA:Cultuurgeschiedenis; Europa --- Americanization --- History. --- Europe --- United States --- Civilization --- American influences. --- Relations --- History --- American influences --- Immigrants --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Civics --- Cultural assimilation