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By closely examining the interaction between intellectual and material culture in the period before the Nazis came to power in Germany, the author comes to the conclusion that, contrary to widely held assumptions, consumer culture in the Weimar period, far from undermining reading, used reading culture to enhance its goods and values. Reading material was marked as a consumer good, while reading as an activity, raising expectations as it did, influenced consumer culture. Consequently, consumption contributed to the diffusion of reading culture, while at the same time a popular reading culture strengthened consumption and its values. Gideon Reuveni is Director of the Centre for German Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the co-editor of The Economy in Jewish History (Berghahn, 2010) and several other books on different aspects of Jewish history. Presently he is working on a book on consumer culture and the making of Jewish identity in Europe.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Reading Germany
• Subtitle: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933
• Author: Gideon Reuveni
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9781845450878
• ISBN: 1845450876
• ID: 05097683
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 588 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 161 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. December 2005

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