Book description
Stereotyped as delicate and feeble intellectuals, Jewish men in
German-speaking lands in fact developed a rich and complex spectrum of
male norms, models, and behaviors. Jewish Masculinities explores
conceptions and experiences of masculinity among Jews in Germany from
the 16th through the late 20th century as well as emigrants to North
America, Palestine, and Israel. The volume examines the different
worlds of students, businessmen, mohels, ritual slaughterers, rabbis,
performers, and others, shedding new light on the challenge for Jewish
men of balancing German citizenship and cultural affiliation with
Jewish communal solidarity, religious practice, and identity.
"A valuable addition to the growing field of Jewish gender
history." -Derek Penslar, University of Toronto
Benjamin Maria Baader is Associate Professor of European History
and co-coordinator of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of
Manitoba. He is author of Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in
Germany, 1800-1870 (IUP, 2006).
Sharon Gillerman is Associate Professor of Jewish History and
Director of the Edgar F. Magnin School of Graduate Studies at Hebrew
Union College, Los Angeles. She is author of Germans into Jews:
Remaking the Jewish Social Body in the Weimar Republic.
Paul Lerner is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Max
Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies at the University of
Southern California. He is author of Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry,
and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930.
