Next Year in Marienbad

preview-18
  • Next Year in Marienbad Book Detail

  • Author : Mirjam Zadoff
  • Release Date : 2012-10-29
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 322
  • ISBN 13 : 0812207556
  • File Size : 53,53 MB

Next Year in Marienbad by Mirjam Zadoff PDF Summary

Book Description: From the last decades of the nineteenth century through the late 1930s, the West Bohemian spa towns of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad were fashionable destinations for visitors wishing to "take a cure"—to drink the waters, bathe in the mud, be treated by the latest X-ray, light, or gas therapies, or simply enjoy the respite afforded by elegant parks and comfortable lodgings. These were sociable and urbane places, settings for celebrity sightings, match-making, and stylish promenading. Originally the haunt of aristocrats, the spa towns came to be the favored summer resorts for the emerging bourgeoisie. Among the many who traveled there, a very high proportion were Jewish. In Next Year in Marienbad, Mirjam Zadoff writes the social and cultural history of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad as Jewish spaces. Secular and religious Jews from diverse national, cultural, and social backgrounds mingled in idyllic and often apolitical-seeming surroundings. During the season, shops sold Yiddish and Hebrew newspapers, kosher kitchens were opened, and theatrical presentations, concerts, and public readings catered to the Jewish clientele. Yet these same resorts were situated in a region of growing hostile nationalisms, and they were towns that might turn virulently anti-Semitic in the off season. Next Year in Marienbad draws from memoirs and letters, newspapers and maps, novels and postcards to create a compelling and engaging portrait of Jewish presence and cultural production in the years between the fin de siècle and the Second World War.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Next Year in Marienbad books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Next Year in Marienbad

Next Year in Marienbad

File Size : 91,91 MB
Total View : 3331 Views
DOWNLOAD

From the last decades of the nineteenth century through the late 1930s, the West Bohemian spa towns of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad were fashionable des

Letters to a Teacher

Letters to a Teacher

File Size : 22,22 MB
Total View : 1768 Views
DOWNLOAD

Ten essays on literature, competition, curiosity, enthusiasm, and truth from the teacher who inspired "The Dead Poet's Society" reveal the joys of teaching and

Last Year in Marienbad

Last Year in Marienbad

File Size : 87,87 MB
Total View : 655 Views
DOWNLOAD

The 1961 film Last Year in Marienbad broke with traditional structures of time, location, and causality like no other film before it. The director, Alain Resnai

Belle de Jour

Belle de Jour

File Size : 41,41 MB
Total View : 7849 Views
DOWNLOAD

Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a listless haute bourgeouise wife with a secret afternoon life of prostitution. Her life twists repression and guilt together wi