Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Shofar; an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
9,2 (1991) 55-69
Keywords:
Jews History
;
Self-hate (Psychology)
;
Jews Identity
Abstract:
The keynote address at a conference on the relationship between German Jews and Eastern European Jews, held at Columbia University, spring 1990. States that the image of the Jew who sounds too Jewish is a stereotype within the Christian world, which represents the Jew as possessing all languages or no language; of having a hidden language which mirrors the perverse or peculiar nature of the Jew; and of being unable to truly command the national language of the world in which he/she lives. Discusses the internalization of these views (which were current in Christian society) by Westernized Jews in turn-of-the-century Austria and Germany (e.g. Weininger, Freud), and in present-day America (e.g. opposition to the comic style of Jackie Mason) - in both cases, rejection of the Eastern European Yiddish-speaking Jew, the symbol of Jewish difference.
Note:
Appeared also in "Insiders and Outsiders" (1994).
URL:
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