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Chapter 3 From Mohels to Mein Kampf Syphilis and the Construction of Jewish Identification
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Abbreviations vii
- Illustrations xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction: Toward a Physiognomic Epidemiology of the Fetishized Jew 1
- Chapter 1 ‘‘Feminization’’ and the Problem of Jewish Persistence 32
- Chapter 2 Tailing the Suspect, or the Braiding of Gender and Ethnic Difference 50
- Chapter 3 From Mohels to Mein Kampf Syphilis and the Construction of Jewish Identification 88
- Chapter 4 Circumcision and a Jewish Woman’s Identification: Rahel Levin Varnhagen’s Failed Assimilation 132
- Chapter 5 Going to ‘‘Alimentary’’ School: Brotstudium, Ludwig Feuerbach, and the Dietetics of Antisemitism 150
- Chapter 6 From Rags to Risches: On Marx’s Other Jewish Question 169
- Chapter 7 A Future without Jews: Max Nordau’s Pre-Zionist Answer to the Other Jewish Question 212
- Chapter 8 President Schreber and the Memoirs of a Wandering Jew(ess) 233
- Chapter 9 Walter Benjamin Reproducing the Scent of the Messianic 256
- Notes 303
- References 421
- Index 487
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Abbreviations vii
- Illustrations xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction: Toward a Physiognomic Epidemiology of the Fetishized Jew 1
- Chapter 1 ‘‘Feminization’’ and the Problem of Jewish Persistence 32
- Chapter 2 Tailing the Suspect, or the Braiding of Gender and Ethnic Difference 50
- Chapter 3 From Mohels to Mein Kampf Syphilis and the Construction of Jewish Identification 88
- Chapter 4 Circumcision and a Jewish Woman’s Identification: Rahel Levin Varnhagen’s Failed Assimilation 132
- Chapter 5 Going to ‘‘Alimentary’’ School: Brotstudium, Ludwig Feuerbach, and the Dietetics of Antisemitism 150
- Chapter 6 From Rags to Risches: On Marx’s Other Jewish Question 169
- Chapter 7 A Future without Jews: Max Nordau’s Pre-Zionist Answer to the Other Jewish Question 212
- Chapter 8 President Schreber and the Memoirs of a Wandering Jew(ess) 233
- Chapter 9 Walter Benjamin Reproducing the Scent of the Messianic 256
- Notes 303
- References 421
- Index 487