Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa: Jewish Metamorphoses and the Colors of Difference

Axel Stähler

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2019

Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa

Jewish Metamorphoses and the Colors of Difference

Axel Stähler

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110586039

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Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa explores the impact on the self-perception and culture of early Zionism of contemporary constructions of racial difference and of the experience of colonialism in imperial Germany. More specifically, interrogating in a comparative analysis material ranging from mainstream satirical magazines and cartoons to literary, aesthetic, and journalistic texts, advertisements, postcards and photographs, monuments and campaign medals, ethnographic exhibitions and publications, popular entertainment, political speeches, and parliamentary reports, the book situates the short-lived but influential Zionist satirical magazine Schlemiel (1903–07) in an extensive network of nodal clusters of varying and shifting significance and with differently developed strains of cohesion or juncture that roughly encompasses the three decades from 1890 to 1920.

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Axel Stähler, University of Kent, UK.

Reviews

“Axel Stähler compellingly situates early Zionism’s ambivalence toward seeing itself as a colonial enterprise within the context of Imperial Germany’s African exploits and meticulously grounds the figure of the Jew as ‘black’ in an extensive network of interlaced discourses through careful exegeses of a wide range of media – from photographs to cartoons, satires to parliamentary reports.”
Jay Geller, Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Culture, Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA

“Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa covers an impressive variety of primarily German cultural sources. It testifies to a deep knowledge of German and Jewish culture of the period of 1880–1920 from the fine arts and philosophy to the intertextuality and literacy of popular images.”
Jakob Egholm Feldt, Dept. of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark

“A true interdisciplinarian, Stähler has written an important and well–argued book not only about the (de)construction of Jewish identity through satire, but also about the history of Zionism and the specter of (German) colonialism.” Jakob Zollmann in: Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa: Jewish Metamorphoses and the Colors of Difference, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs (2020)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Acknowledgements and Permissions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
List of Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XII
Note on Translations, the Appendices, and Controversial Lexical Choices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
Introduction: The Mbwapwa Rhizome: Jewish Metamorphoses and the Colors of Difference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1: Portrait of the African as a Jew – of the Jew as an African? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 2: Soap Powder, the Jews, and the White Man’s Country Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Chapter 3: The German Empire, Africa, and the Jews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Chapter 4: Imag(in)ing the Other: Satire and Colonial Conflict Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Chapter 5: Black Faces and Blackface: Mbwapwa, Mpundo, and the Variété Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Chapter 6: Human Meat and Tortured Souls: Oskar Panizza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
Conclusion: At the Fringes of the Mbwapwa Rhizome: Franz Kafka and Looming Conflagration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Appendix I: Max Jungmann: Briefe aus Neu-Neuland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Appendix II: Max Jungmann: Letters from New-Newland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	398
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars from the fields of Jewish Studies, German Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 495
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 36
Keywords: Zionismus; Kolonialismus; Satirische Zeitschriften

eBook

Published: November 5, 2018
ISBN: 9783110586039

Hardcover

Published: November 5, 2018
ISBN: 9783110583342