Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America

Paul Lerner is Professor of History at the University of Southern California, USA, where he directs the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies. He is the author of The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940. Uwe Spiekermann (uwe-spiekermann.com) is Privatdozent at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His research interests include the history of consumption, retailing, nutrition, and knowledge. The most recent of his 13 books is Künstliche Kost: Ernährung in Deutschland, 1840 bis heute.Anne Schenderlein is Managing Director of the Dahlem Humanities Center at Freie Universität Berlin. Before that, she was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington. She is the author of Germany on their Minds? German Jewish Refugees and their Relationships to Germany, 1933–1938.

• 1. Jews, Consumer Culture, and Jewish Consumer Cultures – An Introduction by Uwe Spiekermann, Paul Lerner, and Anne Schenderlein.- 2. Beyond the Bright Side of Consumer Culture: Jewish Peddlers and Second-Hand Dealers in Germany, 1800-1938 by Uwe Spiekermann.- 3. Advertising in the German-Zionist Press in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century: A Case Study by Olivier Baisez.- 4. Consuming Temples on Both Sides of the Atlantic: German-speaking Jews from the Department Store to the Mall by Paul Lerner.- 5. Stanley Marcus: Fashioning A City by Nils Roemer.- Part II Jewish Consumer Cultures.- 6. Buy Me a Mink: Jews, Fur, and Conspicuous Consumption by Kerry Wallach.- 7. Mrs. Blumenthal Builds Her Dream House: Jewish Women and Consumer Culture in Postwar American Suburbs by Aleisa Fishman.- 8. The Jewish Consumer Culture of British Mandate Palestine by Hizky Shoham.- Part III Jewish Questions, German Questions, and the Politics and Meaning of Consumption in the Modern World.- 9. American Jewish Boycotts of Germany before and after the Holocaust by Anne Schenderlein.- 10. The Art Market in Photography: Modernity, Jews, and Wiedergutmachung? By Michael Berkowitz.- 11. Does Consumer Culture Matter? The “Jewish Question” and the Changing Regimes of Consumption by Gideon Reuveni.