Looking and behaving: Sartorial politics and Jewish men in fin-de-siècle Vienna

Kaplan, JC

Looking and behaving: Sartorial politics and Jewish men in fin-de-siècle Vienna

Kaplan, JC

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Publisher:: Intellect
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Critical Studies in Men's Fashion, 2018, 5 (1 & 2), pp. 5 - 23
Issue Date:: 2018

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dc.contributor.author	Kaplan, JC https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8233-970X	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Critical Studies in Men's Fashion, 2018, 5 (1 & 2), pp. 5 - 23	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2050-070X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/128540
dc.description.abstract	The contribution of Viennese Jews to the cultural milieu of the Austrian capital at the fin de siècle is undisputed. Jewish women and men contributed to the social artistic, economic and philosophical centrality of Viennese culture. But what did Jewish urban, middle-class men wear and in what ways was it significant. This article examines the sartorial habits of two Viennese cultural and literary icons, Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) and Peter Altenberg (1859–1919), and considers how men’s fashions in Vienna during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries both facilitated and negated the assimilatory aspirations of the city’s middle-class Jewish population. A comparison of visual and literary accounts of Jewish acculturation and assimilation will offer a further understanding of the manifestation of visual ‘Jewishness’ and the heterogeneous Jewish identities present in Vienna during the period.	en_US
dc.publisher	Intellect	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Critical Studies in Men's Fashion	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1386/csmf.5.1-2.5_1	en_US
dc.title	Looking and behaving: Sartorial politics and Jewish men in fin-de-siècle Vienna	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
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Abstract:

The contribution of Viennese Jews to the cultural milieu of the Austrian capital at the fin de siècle is undisputed. Jewish women and men contributed to the social artistic, economic and philosophical centrality of Viennese culture. But what did Jewish urban, middle-class men wear and in what ways was it significant. This article examines the sartorial habits of two Viennese cultural and literary icons, Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) and Peter Altenberg (1859–1919), and considers how men’s fashions in Vienna during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries both facilitated and negated the assimilatory aspirations of the city’s middle-class Jewish population. A comparison of visual and literary accounts of Jewish acculturation and assimilation will offer a further understanding of the manifestation of visual ‘Jewishness’ and the heterogeneous Jewish identities present in Vienna during the period.

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