{"product_id":"9780226709727","title":"The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Journalist\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.   \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Journalist\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084196266224,"sku":"9780226709727","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226709727_p0.jpg?v=1763675651","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226709727","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}