Jews in Suits: Men's Dress in Vienna, 1890-1938 by Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum

Description: Jews in Suits by Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum Shortlisted for the Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-FictionSurviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-siècle and interwar periods – both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists – all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit. Yet, until now, the adoption of the tailored suit and its function in the formation of modern Jewish identities remains under-researched.Jews in Suits uses a rich range of written and visual sources, including literary fiction and satire, ego-documents, photography, trade catalogues, invoices, and department store culture, to propose a new narrative of men, fashion, and their Jewish identities. It reveals that dressing in a modern manner was not simply a matter of assimilation, but rather a way of developing new models of Jewish subjectivity beyond the externally prescribed notion of the Jew. Drawing upon fashionable dress, folk costume, religious dress, avant-garde, oppositional dress, typologies which are often considered separate from one another, it proposes a new way of reading men and clothing cultures within an iconic cultural milieu, offering insights into the relationship of clothing and grooming to the understanding of the self. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum is an honorary adjunct fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and education officer at the Sydney Jewish Museum. He holds a PhD in dress and design history from the Imagining Fashion Futures Research lab at the University of Technology Sydney, and has published on the intersections between dress, acculturation, and Jewish identity. Table of Contents List of FiguresAcknowledgementsA Note on Place NamesIntroduction1. Europes Third Most Jewish City2. Fashioning the Self, Dressing Society: Dress and Identity in Europes Third Jewish Capital3. Refashioning the Self: Acculturation, Assimilation, and Clothing4. Strangers in the City: "Rootless" Jews and Urbanity in Vienna5. Der kleine Cohn: Dress and the Function of Mocking through Caricature6. The Man in the Suit: Jewish writers and their ClothingConclusionBibliographyIndex Review A pleasure to read … Kaplan has, with very real skill, produced a close analysis of the design and wearing of mens clothing in 19th- and early 20th-century Vienna … This text has left me sadder and wiser – with a far greater understanding of the roots and depth of anti-Semitism in Austria in this period. * Lou Taylor, University of Brighton, UK *This highly original study of Viennese Jewish men recreates their culture of clothing with clarity and imagination … Essential reading for those interested in mens dress and modernism. * Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia *This book offers fresh, new perspectives on the critical role of mens clothing in fashioning modern Jewish identities. Jews in Suits presents a thought-provoking examination of the sartorial habits of rabbis, politicians, authors and scientists, who granted themselves the authority to shine in the cultural scenes in Vienna and beyond. * Elana Shapira, University of Vienna, Austria *Jews in Suits is an erudite, handsomely printed, and substantial book, by an emerging voice in Jewish and Fashion Studies. * Australian Journal of Jewish Studies * Promotional The first book to examine the dress politics of a group of Jewish men who adopted the modern suit – the Jews of modernist Vienna – encompassing the years from the late 19th century to the National Socialist occupation of Austria (Anschluss) in 1938. Promotional "Headline" The first book to examine the dress politics of a group of Jewish men who adopted the modern suit - the Jews of modernist Vienna - encompassing the years from the late 19th century to the National Socialist occupation of Austria (Anschluss) in 1938. Feature The first book to connect studies of modern and fashionable male dress with the famed fashionable and intellectual metropolis of Vienna Details ISBN1350244201 Year 2023 ISBN-10 1350244201 ISBN-13 9781350244207 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-06-01 UK Release Date 2023-06-01 Series Dress Cultures Pages 296 Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts Subtitle Mens Dress in Vienna, 1890-1938 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 91 bw illus NZ Release Date 2023-06-01 Author Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DEWEY 305.8924043613 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2023-07-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159869959;

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