Ost und West

1901 magazine cover designed by E. M. Lilien

Ost und West ("East and West") was a German magazine meant to bridge together the German Jewish world with the Eastern European Jewish world.[1] The magazine, headquartered in Berlin, operated from 1901 to 1923.[2]

Overview

It was the first "ethnic magazine" in human history and the first Jewish illustrierte (DE).[3] 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'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."[2]

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".[4]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Aschheim, p. 96-97.
  2. 1 2 Brenner, "Neglected 'Women's' Texts and Contexts: Vicki Baum's Jewish Ghetto Stories," p. 103.
  3. ↑ Brenner, "Neglected 'Women's' Texts and Contexts: Vicki Baum's Jewish Ghetto Stories," p. 102.
  4. ↑ Brenner, German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka's kitsch, p. 14.

Further reading

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