Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Disseminating German Tradition
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2009) 165-184
Schlagwort(e):
Human body Social aspects
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Surgery, Plastic
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Surgery, Plastic
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Surgery, Plastic
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Jews Identity
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History
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Antisemitism History 19th century
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Jews History 19th century
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Jews History 1945-
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Jews Medical care
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Jews Medical care
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Medical care History 20th century
Kurzfassung:
The first operations of aesthetic surgery were conducted in Germany in the late 19th century, and this type of surgery became popular among Jews. The motive of those Jews was to get rid of their "specifically Jewish" appearance in order to look "German". This motive stemmed from covert antisemitic imagery which depicted Jews with facial traits such as long noses or protruding ears. In the USA, where aesthetic surgery also gained some popularity among Jews, the main motives have been not to look too "ethnic", i.e. Jewish, and not to transgress the general aesthetic norms of society. In Israel the present-day popularity of aesthetic surgery is connected with the ideal of transforming the look that identified Diaspora Jewry into a look of the modern Israeli.
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