Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction. The Parameters of German Cultural Zionism: The Possibility of a Jewish-National Literature in German?

Chapter One. The Jewish Renaissance in Vienna and Berlin: A Literature and Art for the Sake of Zion

Chapter Two. Satisfaktionsfähigkeit and Jewish Pride: The Literary and Cultural Expressions of Jewish Students and Fraternity Life at the Turn-of- the-Century

Chapter Three. Börries von Münchhausen and E.M. Lilien: The Genesis of Juda and its Zionist Reception

Chapter Four. The Rhetoric of Race and Jewish-National Cultural Politics: From Birnbaum and Buber to Brieger’s René Richter

Chapter Five. Feminist-Zionist Expression: Ideology, Rhetoric, and Literature

Chapter Six. Eroticism and Masochism in Cultural Zionism: Else Lasker- Schüler and Dolorosa

Chapter Seven. “Strangers at Thy Gates”: Anti-Semitism, Philo-Zionism, and the Role of Non-Jews in Jewish - National Culture

Conclusion. German Cultural Zionism, Jewish Difference, Modern Jewish Cultural Identity, and National Creativity

Selected Bibliography

Index