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