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''Ost und West'' ("East and West") was a German magazine meant to bridge the German Jewish world and the Eastern European Jewish world. The magazine, headquartered in
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''Ost und West'' ("East and West") was a German magazine meant to bridge the German Jewish world and the Eastern European Jewish world. The magazine, headquartered in Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
, operated from 1901 to 1923.Brenner, "Neglected 'Women's' Texts and Contexts: Vicki Baum's Jewish Ghetto Stories," ppp. 102–103
History
It was the first "ethnic magazine" in human history and the first Jewish '' illustrierte'' ( DE). The editors intended to reverse assimilation of Jewish people into the wider German society and David Brenner, author of "Neglected 'Women's' Texts and Contexts:Vicki Baum
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; he, ויקי באום; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' ("People at a Hotel", 1929 — published in English as ''Grand Hotel (novel), Gran ...
's Jewish Ghetto Stories," stated that the editors hoped to accomplish this "by constructing an ethnic identity that included East European or "Eastern" forms of Jewishness."
David A. Brenner, author of ''German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka's kitsch'', wrote that the magazine is an "ideal" source for evaluating the reception to Yiddish theatre in Germany especially since "studies of popular Berlin theater, including Yiddish-language theater, are few and far between".Brenner, ''German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka's kitsch'', p14
References
Further reading
* Brenner, David A. ''Marketing Identities: The Invention of Jewish Ethnicity in Ost und West''.Wayne State University Press
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History
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, 1998. , 9780814326848.
* Digitized files for Ost and West can be found at the Judaica Division Goethe University /University Library, Frankfurt am Main, GermanVollständig digitalisierte Zeitschrift
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* Brenner, David A. "Neglected 'Women's' Texts and Contexts: Vicki Baum's Jewish Ghetto Stories." In: Friedrichsmeyer, Sara and Patricia Herminghouse (editors). ''Women in German Yearbook''. University of Nebraska Press
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, June 1, 1998. , 9780803298033.
* Brenner, David A. ''German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka's kitsch''. Taylor & Francis US
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, July 8, 2008. , 9780203894033.
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