Modernist Form and the Myth of Jewification

Modernist Form and the Myth of Jewification
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Total Pages : 414
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ISBN-10 : 0823260860
ISBN-13 : 9780823260867
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Book Synopsis Modernist Form and the Myth of Jewification by : Neil Jonathan Levi

Download or read book Modernist Form and the Myth of Jewification written by Neil Jonathan Levi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book argues that the antisemitic interpretation of modernist form as a symptom of a mobile, contagious Jewish spirit needs to be treated as integral to the history of European modernism. The notion of modernist form as Jewified lies at the heart of both a certain modernism's hostile reception, and its self-conception"--


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