{"product_id":"9781441193346","title":"Bambi's Jewish Roots and Other Essays on German-Jewish Culture","description":"Paul Reitter has won acclaim as both a scholar and a public critic for his writing on German Jewish culture in the twentieth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBambi's Jewish Roots \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together the best of Reitter's essayistic work, exploring the lives of well-known figures and revealing surprising new perspectives. These include how Felix Salten's Zionist commitments manifest themselves in his most famous work, the novel \u003ci\u003eBambi\u003c\/i\u003e; what Gershom Scholem's diaries tell us about his development as a thinker and person; why German-Jewish writers hated Stefan Zweig so passionately; where myth-busting books about Franz Kafka have indulged in myth-building;  how Freud's \u003ci\u003eMoses and Monotheism\u003c\/i\u003e offers a theory of Jewish self-hatred more than an explanation of anti-Semitism; and why Heinrich Heine felt aburning need to distance himself from his fellow liberal Jewish critic Ludwig Börne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe works collected here, many of which were originally published in forums such as the\u003ci\u003e New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eJewish Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, have earned Reitter his reputation as a witty, erudite, and deeply illuminating critic.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134538105072,"sku":"9781441193346","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441193346_p0.jpg?v=1763794702","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441193346","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}