{"id":465,"date":"2010-12-06T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T16:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=465"},"modified":"2010-12-06T13:02:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T17:02:46","slug":"professor-abigail-gillman-publishes-viennese-jewish-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/12\/06\/professor-abigail-gillman-publishes-viennese-jewish-modernism\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Abigail Gillman publishes &#8220;Viennese Jewish Modernism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Viennese-Jewish-Modernism-Hofmannsthal-Beer-Hofmann\/dp\/0271034092\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-474 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/12\/book.jpg\" alt=\"book\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>In her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/phpbin\/news-cms\/news\/?dept=1785&amp;id=53712\">recently published<\/a> new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Viennese-Jewish-Modernism-Hofmannsthal-Beer-Hofmann\/dp\/0271034092\/\"><em>Viennese Jewish Modernism<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mlcl\/people\/faculty\/gillman.html\">Professor Abigail Gillman<\/a> &#8212; associate professor of Hebrew and German, and instructor in the Core Humanities &#8212; takes a novel approach to exploring Jewish Modernism that goes beyond identity as Jewish or non-Jewish. Instead, Prof. Gillman focuses on the works of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sigmund_Freud\">Sigmund Freud<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugo_von_Hofmannsthal\">Hugo Von Hofmannsthal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Beer-Hofmann\">Richard Beer-Hofmann<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Schnitzler\">Arthur Schnitzler<\/a> as sources which illuminate the context for Modernism as a whole. In his blurb, William Donahue of Duke University writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gillman&#8217;s book is as rich and paradoxical as Jewish assimilation itself,  for the author is at once telling a particularly Jewish and a larger  European story of aesthetic, cultural, and sometimes even political  engagement with tradition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Viennese Jewish Modernism<\/em>, published by Penn State University Press in 2009, is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\/books\/titles\/978-0-271-03409-6.html\">the PSU website<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=IhRZlSWzg10C\">Google Books preview<\/a>, and in hard copy at <a href=\"http:\/\/library.bu.edu\/search~S0?\/cPT3828.V5+G55+2009\/cpt+3828+v5+g55+2009\/-3,-1,,B\/browse\">Mugar library<\/a>. A reviewer for the <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_jewish_identities\/v003\/3.2.rose.html\"><em>Journal of Jewish Identity<\/em><\/a> called the book &#8220;a major accomplishment&#8221;, one that &#8220;provides a wealth of new ideas and information.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her recently published new book, Viennese Jewish Modernism, Professor Abigail Gillman &#8212; associate professor of Hebrew and German, and instructor in the Core Humanities &#8212; takes a novel approach to exploring Jewish Modernism that goes beyond identity as Jewish or non-Jewish. Instead, Prof. Gillman focuses on the works of Sigmund Freud, Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3838],"tags":[428,283,4333,4313,866],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}