Jews in suits: men's dress in Vienna, 1890-1938
Surviving 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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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London
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Jews in suits : men's dress in Vienna, 1890-1938] (2024) (Korbel, Susanne, 1991 -)
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series/Journal: | Dress Cultures
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Vienna
/ Jews
/ Men's clothing
/ History 1890-1938
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| Further subjects: | B
Fashion & society
B Men's clothing History (Vienna) 19th century B History of fashion B Men's clothing History (Vienna) 20th century B Jewish clothing and dress B Jewish Studies |
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| Summary: | Surviving 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource |
| ISBN: | 978-1-350-24424-5 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9781350244245 |
