Men of Valor and Anxiety
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Men of Valor and Anxiety

Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity

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Men of Valor and Anxiety

Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity

About this book

At the turn of the twentieth century, Jewish men in Eastern Europe lived in a social reality in which both Jewish and non-Jewish men and women tested, debated, and redesigned masculinities.

Men of Valor and Anxiety explores how religion, class divisions, antisemitism, new domesticity, and militarization changed masculine ideas and practices in Eastern Europe between the 1890s and 1930s. Author Mariusz Kalczewiak applies recent paradigms of gender theory and social history to offer a sensitive historical analysis of personal memoirs, advice books, archives of Jewish institutions, and journalistic commentaries. This study ventures into the military barracks, yeshivot study halls, fraternity parties, and Jewish homes to demonstrate how complex Jewish masculinities were between orthodoxy, acculturation, Polish and Jewish nationalisms, and changing notions of domesticity and profession.

Focusing on an ethnic minority in a country that first struggled for independence and later embarked on an accelerated modernization project, Men of Valor and Anxiety is the first book to demonstrate how the links between ethnicity and gender were constructed within both global and local contexts.

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Information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9780253073853
Topic
History
Subtopic
European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. A Note on Translation, Spelling, and Transliteration
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1: Yeshiva Men: Elite Religious Knowledge and Intellectual Potency
  11. Chapter 2: A Jew and His Penis: Circumcision and the Entanglements of Jewishness and Masculinity
  12. Chapter 3: Boys Showing Off: The Working Class, Strongmen, and Corporeality
  13. Chapter 4: Tender Bonds of Fraternal Affection: Student Fraternities, Homosocial Sociability, and Jewish Respectability
  14. Chapter 5: Pulling the Trigger: The Military and Jewish Masculinities
  15. Chapter 6: Leisure and Toil: Masculinity in Profession, Family, and Consumer Culture
  16. Chapter 7: Homosexual Masculinities: Between Crime, Progressive Calls, and Homophobic Subversion
  17. Epilogue
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. About the Author
  22. About the Book