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Intro -- Praise for Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Jews, Consumer Culture, and Jewish Consumer Cultures: An Introduction -- The Economic Turn in Jewish History -- From the Economic Turn to Consumer Culture Studies -- Jewish Consumer Cultures -- Dreams and Reality -- Jews, Migration, and Consumption -- Hybridity and Transnational Approaches -- Case Studies -- Part I: Jews, Retail Cultures, and Modern Commerce in Europe and North America -- Chapter 2: Beyond the Bright Side of Consumer Culture: Jewish Peddlers and Second-Hand Dealers in Germany, 1800-1938 -- Second-Hand Goods and the Emerging Consumer Society in Germany -- Fashion Brokers and Agents of Modernity? Peddlers in a Changing Economic and Social Environment -- From Peddling to a Variety of Retail Businesses -- From the Core to the Niche: Consumerism and the Relative Decline of the (Jewish) Second-Hand Market -- Symbolic and Real Exclusion: The Aryanization of Second-Hand Trade in the 1930s -- Chapter 3: Advertising in the German-Zionist Press in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century: A Case Study -- On the Advertisers' Side: The Ascent of Concrete Palestine -- A Portrait of the German Zionist as a Consumer -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Consuming Temples on Both Sides of the Atlantic: German-Speaking Jews from the Department Store to the Mall -- Chapter 5: Stanley Marcus: Fashioning a City -- Part II: Jewish Consumer Cultures -- Chapter 6: Buy Me a Mink: Jews, Fur, and Conspicuous Consumption -- Jewish Involvement in the Fur Industry -- Representations of Jewish Fur Wearers in German and Eastern European Contexts -- Global Fashions, Visible Consumers, and Fur on Display -- Epilogue: Jews and Fur in the Twenty-First Century.

A two-day conference organized by The Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies (USC) and The Wende Museum. Co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute and the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (ZZF). Additional support provided by the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, USC Dornsife Dean's Office, and USC Dornsife Departments of Art History, History, and Slavic Languages and Literature. Modern history has been marked by periodic ruptures, radical changes brought on by wars, revolutionary upheaval, or sudden political shifts that shattered existing social and political structures and belief systems. No country has experienced this more profoundly than Germany, which has witnessed five regimes across the past 100 years and experienced both the heights of national euphoria and the depths of physical and moral defeat and destruction in the twentieth century. During times of fundamental change, cultural ideas and expressions pave the way for the imagination of a new order. This conference focuses on the key role of utopian visions, both artistic and intellectual, that changed the world from the twentieth century to the present day.