Broken Threads
The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria
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Product details:
- Publisher Berg Publishers
- Date of Publication 1 December 2006
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781845206604
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages136 pages
- Size 270x180x10 mm
- Weight 617 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 82 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index 0
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Short description:
A historical account of the impact of Nazism on Jewish fashion reveals how the early twentieth century fashion industry in Germany and Austria was a thriving business that was subjected to boycotts and Aryanization when the Reich determined that it was too heavily influenced by Jewish designers, manufacturers, and merchandisers. 10,000 first printing.
MoreLong description:
Broken Threads tells the story of the destruction of the Jewish fashion industry under the Nazis.Jewish designers were very prominent in the fashion industry of 1930s Germany and Austria. The emergence of Konfektion, or ready-to-wear, and the development of the modern department store, with its innovative merchandising and lavish interior design, only emphasized this prominence. The Nazis came to see German high fashion as too heavily influenced by Jewish designers, manufacturers and merchandisers. These groups were targeted with a campaign of propaganda, boycotts, humiliation and Aryanization.Broken Threads chronicles this moment of cultural loss, detailing the rise of Jewish design and its destruction at the hands of the Nazis. Superbly illustrated with photographs and fashion plates from the collection of Claus Jahnke, Broken Threads explores this little-known part of fashion and of Nazi history.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction - The Holocaust and Cultural Loss, Roberta S. Kremer, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
1. From Rags to Riches - Jews as Producers and Consumers of Fashion, Christopher Friedrichs, University of British Columbia
2. Architecture of the German Department Store, Christian Schramm, architect, Gelsenkirchen-Buer, Germany
3. Contributions of Jewish Fashion Designers in Berlin, Ingrid Loschek, University of Applied Sciences in Pforzheim, Germany
4. Destruction of a Culture and an Industry, Irene Guenther, Rice University
5. Fashion Disappears from Germany, Charlotte Rymann Schallié, University of British Columbia
6. Ridding Vienna's Fashion and Textile Industry of Jews During the Nazi Period, Gloria Sultano, independent scholar
