Title The invisible Jewish Budapest : metropolitan culture at the Fin de Siecle / Mary Gluck.

Publication Info.	Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]
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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Series	George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history
	George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: Jewish Budapest as a Symbolic Space -- Cultural Visions of the Emerging City -- The Jewish Question and the Paradox of Hungarian Liberalism -- A Jewish Politician in a Divided Public Space -- The Jewish Humor Magazine and Collective Self-Parody -- The Scandal of the Budapest Orpheum -- Critical Cross-Dressing and Jewish Bourgeois Identity -- Epilogue: The Warning of Jewish Budapest after World War I
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Summary	Nearly a quarter of the population of Budapest at the fin de siècle was Jewish. This demographic fact appears startling primarily because of its virtual absence from canonical histories of the city.Famed for its cosmopolitan culture and vibrant nightlife, Budapest owed much to its Jewish population. Indeed, it was Jews who helped shape the city's complex urban modernity between 1867 and 1914. Yet these contributions were often unacknowledged, leading to a metaphoric, if not literal, invisible status for many of Budapest's Jews.In the years since, particularly between the wars, anti-Semites wit.
Subject	Jews -- Hungary -- Budapest -- History.
	Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Hungary -- Budapest -- History.
	Popular culture -- Hungary -- Budapest -- History.
	Budapest (Hungary) -- History -- 1872-1945.
	Budapest (Hungary) -- Ethnic relations.
	Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
	Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
	Jews -- Cultural assimilation. (OCoLC)fst00983194
	Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
	Hungary -- Budapest. (OCoLC)fst01206109
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies.
	Juden.
	Alltagskultur.
	Nachtleben.
	Budapest.
Chronological Term	1872-1945
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Gluck, Mary. Invisible Jewish Budapest. Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, [2016] 9780299307707 (DLC) 2015036814 (OCoLC)926050467
ISBN	9780299307738 (electronic bk.)
	0299307735 (electronic bk.)

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