Cover Image

Jews in suits : men's dress in Vienna, 1890-1938 / Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum.

Show other versions (1)

Surviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the <i>fin-de-siècle</i> and interwar periods - both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists - all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit. Yet, until now, the adoption of the tailored suit...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Kaplan-Wajselbaum, Jonathan C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.
Series:Dress cultures.
Subjects:
Jews > Austria > Vienna > Identity.
Jews > Austria > Vienna > History.
Tailoring > Austria > Vienna > History.
Suits (Clothing) > Austria > Vienna > History.
Jewish clothing and dress.
Men's clothing > Austria > Vienna > History > 19th century.
Men's clothing > Austria > Vienna > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Europe's Third Most Jewish City
  • Chapter 2: Fashioning the Self, Dressing Society: Dress and Identity in Europe's Third Jewish Capital
  • Chapter 3: Refashioning the Self: Acculturation, Assimilation, and Clothing
  • Chapter 4: Strangers in the City: "Rootless" Jews and Urbanity in Vienna
  • Chapter 5: Der kleine Cohn: Dress and the Function of Mocking through Caricature
  • Chapter 6: The Man in the Suit: Jewish Writers and Their Clothing.

Similar Items