Jewish frontiers : essays on bodies, histories, and identities / Sander L. Gilman.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-234) and index.

Introduction: The Frontier as a Model for Jewish History -- -- PART I : REPRESENTING THE SHOAH AT THE FRONTIER -- 1. The First Comic Film about the Shoah: Jurek Becker and Cultural Opposition within the GDR -- 2. Is Life Beautiful? Can the Shoah Be Funny? On the Frontier between Acceptable and Unacceptable Representations of the Holocaust in Some Newer and Older Films -- -- PART II : DISEASES AND BOUNDARIES -- 3. Smoking Jews on the Frontier -- 4. A French Frontier: Proust's Nose -- 5. A Dream of Jewishness on the Frontier: Kafka's Tumor and "A Country Doctor" -- 6. Private Knowledge: Jewish Illnesses and the Process of Identity Formation -- -- PART III : JEWISH BODIES ON THE MULTICULTURAL FRONTIER -- 7. "We're Not Jews": Imagining Jewish History and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary Multicultural Literature