TY - BOOK AU - Hahn,Barbara TI - The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity SN - 9781400826582 AV - PT74 .H34 2005eb U1 - 305.48/8924043 22 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Athena (Greek deity) in literature KW - German literature KW - History and criticism KW - Jewish women in literature KW - Jewish women KW - Germany KW - HISTORY / Europe / Germany KW - bisacsh KW - Arendt, Hannah KW - Arnhold, Eduard KW - Arnhold, Johanna KW - Augustinus KW - Beer, Amalie KW - Bendemann, Erwin von KW - Beradt, Martin KW - Bode, Wilhelm von KW - Brouwer, Adrian KW - Camper, Peter KW - Casper, Fanny KW - Conrad, Joseph KW - Corinth, Lovis KW - Dante KW - Dedem, Baron KW - Domeier, Lucie KW - Dumont, Louise KW - Eichmann, Adolf KW - Enzig, Misses KW - Fischer, Samuel KW - Freud, Sigmund KW - Fromm, Henriette KW - Geiger, Ludwig KW - George, Stefan KW - Giesenberg, Hermann KW - Gilman, Sander KW - Graef, Gustav KW - Gualtieri, Peter von KW - Haltern, Joseph KW - Harden, Maximilian KW - Henrich, Dieter KW - Herz, Henriette KW - Hoyos, Count KW - Iffland, August Wilhelm KW - Jaspers, Gertrud KW - Jogiches, Leo KW - Kempner, Sprinza KW - Landmann, Edith KW - Levin, Chaie KW - Leyden, Ernst Victor von KW - Manet, Edouard KW - Menzel, Adolph KW - Monet, Claude KW - Munk, Georg KW - Natanson, Aniela KW - Nicolai, Friedrich KW - Nostitz, Helene von KW - Padilla, Artot de KW - Picart, Bernard KW - Pringsheim, Hedwig KW - Proust, Marcel N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; The Jewess Pallas Athena --; Breaks in Tradition --; "Egyptian Style" --; The Myth of the Salon --; "Cries into the Void" --; The Modern Jewess --; Encounters at the Margin --; Odd Beings --; In Search of History --; Kaddish for R. L. --; Baggage of Debris --; Thinking in a Combat Alliance --; "Complete Unreservedness" --; Gestures and Poems --; Goddess without a Name --; Silence - Conversation --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access N2 - "The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century? This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It ends two hundred years later, with another group of Jewish women looking back at a country from which they had been expelled and to which they would never want to return. Among the many prominent female intellectuals and literary figures Barbara Hahn discusses are Hannah Arendt, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Rosa Luxemburg, Else Lasker-Schüler, Margarete Susman, and Rahel Levin Varnhagen. In examining their writing, she reflects upon the question of how German culture was constructed--with its inherent patterns of exclusion. This is a book about hope and despair, possibilities and preventions. We see attempts at dialogue between Christians and Jews, men and women, "Germans" and "Jews," attempts initiated by these women that, for the most part, remained unanswered. Finally, the book reconstructs the changing notions of the "Jewess," a key word in modern German history with its connotations of "salons," "beauty," and "esprit." And yet a word that is also disastrous, in which there culminated everything the dominant culture condemned as dangerous UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400826582?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400826582 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400826582.jpg ER -