In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish symbiosis' before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German 'national' film in the years leading to Hitler's regime.

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OFER ASHKENAZIVisiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, USA.

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The Jews Have No Shame: The 'Jewish Problem' in Weimar Urban Comedies A Man in The Street: Identity and Performance in Weimar Domestic Melodramas Assimilating the Shrew: Alraune and Weimar Horror Film Wandering Jews: A Jewish Solution for the German Crisis in Adventure and War Film