{"product_id":"jews-in-suits-mens-dress-in-vienna-18901938-9781350244207","title":"Jews in Suits: Men's Dress in Vienna, 1890-1938","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 296 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 01 June 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the \u003ci\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e and interwar periods – both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists – all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit. Yet, until now, the adoption of the tailored suit and its function in the formation of modern Jewish identities remains under-researched.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJews in Suits \u003c\/i\u003euses a rich range of written and visual sources, including literary fiction and satire, ‘ego-documents’, photography, trade catalogues, invoices, and department store culture, to propose a new narrative of men, fashion, and their Jewish identities. It reveals that dressing in a modern manner was not simply a matter of assimilation, but rather a way of developing new models of Jewish subjectivity beyond the externally prescribed notion of ‘the Jew’. Drawing upon fashionable dress, folk costume, religious dress, avant-garde, oppositional dress, typologies which are often considered separate from one another, it proposes a new way of reading men and clothing cultures within an iconic cultural milieu, offering insights into the relationship of clothing and grooming to the understanding of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 234 x 156 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781350244207\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44276699431162,"sku":"9781350244207","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1686320451289_book.jpg?v=1686566743","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/jews-in-suits-mens-dress-in-vienna-18901938-9781350244207","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}