Jewish Consumer Cultures: An Overview of Current Research
May 07, 2015
Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Gideon Reuveni (University of Sussex)
Gideon Reuveni is Reader in History and Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Reading Germany: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933 (2006) and the editor of several important books on modern Jewish history. Currently he is completing a book on consumer culture and the making of Jewish identity in Europe.
This keynote lecture, organized together with the USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, is part of the conference "Jewish Consumer Cultures in 19th and 20th Century Europe and America" taking place at the GHI from May 7 to 9, 2015.