Language:
French
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Entre deux mondes
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 85-99
Keywords:
Jews Social life and customs
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
;
Coffeehouses History
Abstract:
This article looks at how the Habsburg Lemberg and then the Polish Lwów of the inter-war period appropriated the Wiener Kaffeehauskultur and the role played by the Jews, the city’s second ethnic and religious group, in adapting the Austrian model, whether as owners, customers or users. We attempt to establish a double typology, that of mixed places patronized by Jews and non-Jews, and that of places where Jewish and/or Yiddish professional circles, especially writers, met, in order to understand their function in the social and intellectual life of the Jews of Lemberg. Located at the crossroads of consumption, sociability and leisure culture, a place of multilingualism par excellence, the cafés were likely to constitute an essential melting pot for the acculturation process. This study of the cafés, which is necessarily combined with a subtle socio-cultural study of the city’s Jewish and non-Jewish circles and their interactions over the decades, also seeks to describe the invention of an entertainment culture in which Jewish entrepreneurs played the role of mediators between highbrow and lowbrow cultures and helped to establish the reputation of the galitsyaner Jew.
DOI:
10.4000/germanica.9441
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