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In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Krausâs spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which brought him a reputation as the quintessential self-hating Jew. The Anti-Journalist overturns this view with unprecedented force and sophistication, showing how Krausâs criticisms form the center of a radical model of German-Jewish self-fashioning, and how that model developed in concert with Krausâs modernist journalistic style. Paul Reitterâs study of Krausâs writings situates them in the context of fin-de-siècle German-Jewish intellectual society. He argues that rather than stemming from anti-Semitism, Krausâs attacks constituted an innovative critique of mainstream German-Jewish strategies for assimilation. Marshalling three of the most daring German-Jewish authorsâKafka, Scholem, and BenjaminâReitter explains their admiration for Krausâs project and demonstrates his influence on their own notions of cultural authenticity.  The Anti-Journalist is at once a new interpretation of a fascinating modernist oeuvre and a heady exploration of an important stage in the history of German-Jewish thinking about identity. |
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