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German Jews in Paris: Traversing Modernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2015

Nils Roemer
Nils Roemer*
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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Abstract

The article traces Central European Jewish visitors of Paris during the Weimar Republic and the 1930s and analyzes the shifting meaning of travel, exile, and the figure of the flaneur. Their travelogues articulated their affection for Paris in the aftermath of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles, marking them as border crossers in multiple ways. Writing about modern capitals such as Paris became a way to temporarily belong to them, to reimagine modernity.

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TravelexileGerman JewsJewish studiesurban studies
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Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Jewish Studies and Postcolonialism , January 2016 , pp. 79 - 95
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