TY - BOOK ID - 77899495 TI - Jewish pasts, German fictions PY - 2014 SN - 0804790590 9780804790598 9780804786072 0804786070 PB - Stanford, California DB - UniCat KW - Jews in literature. KW - Jewish historical fiction, German KW - German fiction KW - German Jewish historical fiction KW - History and criticism. KW - Collective memory and literature KW - German KW - Jews in literature KW - Sephardim in literature KW - Literature and collective memory KW - Literature KW - History KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77899495 AB - Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing.What did it imply for a minority to imagine its history in the majority language? Skolnik makes the case that the answer lies in the creation of a German-Jewish minority culture in which historical fiction ER -