Berlin metropolis : Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918 / [edited by] Emily D. Bilski ; with essays by Sigrid Bauschinger ... [and others].

"This book has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918, The Jewish Museum, New York, November 14, 1999-April 23, 2000"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256) and index.

The Berlin Jew as cosmopolitan / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- Modernism and the "alien element" in German art / Peter Paret -- The Berlin moderns : Else Lasker-Schüler and café culture / Sigrid Bauschinger -- Images of identity and urban life : Jewish artists in turn-of-the-century Berlin / Emily D. Bilski -- Max Liebermann as a "Jewish" painter : the artist's reception in his time / Chana C. Schütz -- Jewish renaissance, Jewish modernism / Inka Bertz -- Encounters at the margins : Jewish salons around 1900 / Barbara Hahn -- Performing high and low : Jews in modern theater, cabaret, revue, and film / Peter Jelavich.