Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction: “Our Two-Step Is the Modern Decadence!” 1
6. 1. Qu’est-ce que c’est la décadence? And What Does It Have to Do with Jews? 20
7. 2. Oscar Wilde among the Jews 50
8. 3. Salomania and the Remaking of the Jewish Female Body from Sarah Bernhardt to Betty Boop 82
9. 4. Coming Out of the Jewish Closet with Marcel Proust 113
10. 5. Pessimism, Jewish Style: Jews Reading Schopenhauer from Freud to Bellow 149
11. 6 Walter Benjamin’s Paris, Capital of Jewish Aesthetic Modernity 180
12. 7 Dybbuks, Vampires, and Other Fin-de- Siècle Jewish Phantasms 206
13. Conclusion: The Deca-danse; or, The Afterlife of the Jewish Decadent 226
14. Notes 253