TY - BOOK AU - Reitter,Paul TI - The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe T2 - Studies in German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem SN - 9780226709727 AV - PT2621 U1 - 838/.91209 PY - 2008/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Antisemitism in the press -- Europe -- History -- 19th century KW - German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism KW - Jewish journalists -- Europe -- History -- 19th century KW - Jewish press -- Europe -- History -- 19th century KW - Jews -- Identity -- Europe -- History -- 19th century KW - Kraus, Karl, -- 1874-1936 -- Political and social views KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Editions -- A Note on Translations -- Introduction All That Is Solid Melts into Ink -- 1 German Jews and the Writing of Modern Life -- 2 Karl Kraus and the Jewish Self-Hatred Question -- 3 Mirror-Man -- 4 Messianic Journalism? Benjamin and Scholem Read Die Fackel -- Conclusion The Afterlife of Anti-Journalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which brought him a reputation as the quintessential self-hating Jew. The Anti-Journalist overturns this view with unprecedented force and sophistication, showing how Kraus's criticisms form the center of a radical model of German-Jewish self-fashioning, and how that model developed in concert with Kraus's modernist journalistic style. Paul Reitter's study of Kraus's writings situates them in the context of fin-de-siècle German-Jewish intellectual society. He argues that rather than stemming from anti-Semitism, Kraus's attacks constituted an innovative critique of mainstream German-Jewish strategies for assimilation. Marshalling three of the most daring German-Jewish authors-Kafka, Scholem, and Benjamin-Reitter explains their admiration for Kraus's project and demonstrates his influence on their own notions of cultural authenticity.   The Anti-Journalist is at once a new interpretation of a fascinating modernist oeuvre and a heady exploration of an important stage in the history of German-Jewish thinking about identity UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=432282 ER -