Books written by Sander L. Gilman

  • Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany: Life and Literature Since 1989

    Life and Literature Since 1989 Sander L. Gilman, Karen Remmler ... Vicissitudes of Being Jewish in West Germany,” in Germans and Jews since the Holocaust: The Changing Situation in West Germany (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986), 27–49.

  • Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany: Life and Literature Since 1989

    Edited by Sander L. Gilman and Karen Remmler and featuring works by many of the most noted specialists on the subject, including Susan Niemann, Y. Michael Bodemann, Marion Kaplan, Katharina Ochse, Robin Ostow, Rafael Seligmann, Jack Zipes, ...

  • Are Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity

    99 Wilhelm Reich, Massenpsychologie des Faschismus: zur Sexualökonomie der politischen Reaktion und zur proletarischen Sexualpolitik (Copenhagen: Verlag für Sexualpolitik, 1933). All quotations are from the translation: Reich, ...

  • Hysteria Beyond Freud

    No reason exists to recount them here , for there is little to add , except to observe Sydenham's reason for accepting Dr. William Cole's invitation to set down on paper his thoughts " concerning the so - called hysterical diseases .

  • On European Ground

    The essays present both an introduction to and aesthetic analysis of Cohen's work, while the interview discusses the intractable problems of history and memory that his photographs so uniquely capture.

  • Mythen, Masken und Subjekte: Kritische Weißseinsforschung in Deutschland

    Mythen, Masken und Subjekte: Kritische Weißseinsforschung in Deutschland

  • Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany: Life and Literature Since 1989

    Peter H. Wyden, Stella (Göttingen: Steidl, 1993). See. Der Spiegel 43, 44, 45 (1992). See Ferdinand Kroh, David kämpft. Vom jüdischen Widerstand gegen Hitler (Reinbek: rororo, 1988), 163–74. Hans-Ulrich Jörges, “Für Deutschland streiten ...

  • Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996

    Susannah Heschel ( New York : Farrar , Straus & Giroux , 1996 ) ; Heschel , “ Versuch einer Deutung , " Begegnung mit dem Judentum : Ein Gedenkbuch , ed . Margareche Lackmund ( Bad Pyrmont : Stimme der Freunde , 1962 ) , 11-13 ...

  • Inscribing the Other

    The theme of difference and its artistic and intellectual manifestations runs throughout the book, which includes discussions of Goethe's and Wilde's homosexuality, Nietzsche's madness, Heine's refusal to be photographed, and Primo Levi's ...

  • Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

    Since Lenny is without a body, it is the figure of Mrs Levy, the wife of the owner of Levy Pants, whose body reveals it all. It is she who had evoked Lenny as the model for her husband's dealing with his business difficulties.

  • Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia

    Levy,thewife of the owner of Levy Pants, which employs Ignatius andGonzalez, whose body revealsall. It is she who had evoked Lenny as themodel forher husband's dealing withhis business difficulties. She enters the novel “prone on the ...

  • Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia

    Additionally, McDonald's, the home of Ronald McDonald, has altered its advertising, and even its menu. In 2004, McDonald's announced its program committed to “balanced lifestyles.” The fast-food franchises added healthy options, ...

  • Diseases and Diagnoses: The Second Age of Biology

    Could halal become the next “organic” for Europeans? Certainly at the moment, as Olivier Roy notes, there is a greater demand for “Westem” food to be made from halal meat than for the rejection of McDonald's for traditional ...

  • Are Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity

    Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy?

  • Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis

    In this series of crises the eternal semitic enemy stood ready as a convenient explanation." The second meaningful aspect of the Jew's supranationalism, ... Many leading theatre critics were Jews, and they dominated light entertainment.

  • Jews in Today's German Culture

    This is the first book to examine an emerging new German Jewish culture that has become visible since the fall of the Berlin Wall.The Shoah seemed to have erased the...

  • Franz Kafka

    Sander L. Gilman brings together Kafka's literary works, personal writings, and biography to create a compelling and accessible narrative of the literary master's life.

  • ‘I Know Who Caused COVID-19’: Pandemics and Xenophobia

    This is a timely, cogent examination of the blame and xenophobia that have been brought to the surface by the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Wagner & Cinema

    Hansjörg Pauli, Filmmusik, Stummfilm (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981), 230. ... Hans Erdmann, Giuseppe Becce, and Ludwig Brav, Allgemeines Handbuch der Film-Musik (Berlin: Schlesinger'sche Buch- und Musikhandlung, 1927), vol.

  • Smoke: A Global History of Smoking

    An incisive collection of essays and more than three hundred illustrations examines the global history and culture of smoking in various traditions and places, from opium dens in Victorian England to Havana cigars, documenting smokers of ...