TY - JOUR
T1 - From Myth to Counter-Myth
T2 - The Romanticization of the Eastern Jew (1880–1914)
AU - Aschheim, Steven
PY - 1982/11/1
Y1 - 1982/11/1
N2 - The East European Jews (Ostjuden) played an integral role in German Jewish self-definition. As ‘ghetto Jews’ they were living embodiments of the general pre-modern Jewish condition and perfect foils for the creation of Jewish myths and counter-myths, stereotypical negations and affirmations. This paper attempts to delineate the outlines of these myths and counter-myths and to analyse the major symbolic functions which the Eastern Jews performed in the ideological world of liberal, Zionist and ‘post-Zionist’ German Jews.
AB - The East European Jews (Ostjuden) played an integral role in German Jewish self-definition. As ‘ghetto Jews’ they were living embodiments of the general pre-modern Jewish condition and perfect foils for the creation of Jewish myths and counter-myths, stereotypical negations and affirmations. This paper attempts to delineate the outlines of these myths and counter-myths and to analyse the major symbolic functions which the Eastern Jews performed in the ideological world of liberal, Zionist and ‘post-Zionist’ German Jews.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84945781987&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02619288.1982.9974530
DO - 10.1080/02619288.1982.9974530
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AN - SCOPUS:84945781987
SN - 0261-9288
VL - 1
SP - 306
EP - 319
JO - Immigrants and Minorities
JF - Immigrants and Minorities
IS - 3
ER -