Jewish masculinities : German Jews, gender, and history / edited by Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman, and Paul Lerner.

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2012]

viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Introduction : German Jews, gender, and history / Paul Lerner, Benjamin Maria Baader, and Sharon Gillerman -- Respectability tested : male ideals, sexuality, and honor in early modern Ashkenazi Jewry / Andreas Gotzmann -- Jewish difference and the feminine spirit of Judaism in mid-nineteenth century Germany / Benjamin Maria Baader -- Moral, clean men of the Jewish faith : Jewish rituals and their male practitioners, 1843-1914 / Robin Judd -- A soft hero : male Jewish identity in Imperial Germany through the autobiography of Aron Liebeck / Stefanie Schüler-Springorum -- Performing masculinity : Jewish students and the honor code at German universities / Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker -- Whose body is it anyway? : hermaphrodites, gays, and Jews in N.O. Body's Germany / Sander L. Gilman -- Toward a theory of the modern Hebrew handshake : the conduct of muscle Judaism / Etan Bloom -- Friedrich Gundolf and Jewish conservative bohemianism in the Weimar Republic / Ann Goldberg -- A kinder gentler strongman? : Siegmund Breitbart in Eastern Europe / Sharon Gillerman -- Family matters : German Jewish masculinities among Nazi era refugees / Judith Gerson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.