Introduction

1. Vienna: The School of Anti-Semitism and Jewish Self- Hatred
2. Jewish Physiognomy or the Stain of Ugliness
3. Berlin and the Fascinating Faces of Max Reinhardt’s Deutsches Theater
4. “You look incredible:” Kortner, Leopold Jessner, and the Staatstheater
5. Adieu Expressionism: Kortner, Erich Engel, and Bertolt Brecht
6. Kortner as Shylock: Reclaiming Jewish Identity
7. The Nazis and Kortner: “They hate you because of your Aggressiveness”
8. The Years of Exile: London, New York, and Hollywood
9. The Last Illusion: The German University and Anti- Semitism
10. Kortner’s Comedy Donauwellen: Satirizing the Thieves of Vienna
11. Kortner and the West German Theater: Triumph and Scandal
12. Kortner and the Autobiographical Act: Aller Tage Abend
13. Attack Journalism or a Spiegel Affair
14. Kortner and the Sixties
15. Shylock after Auschwitz: Kortner’s Terrifying Jew
16. “I didn’t need to make enemies. They were there before I was.” Kortner’s Letzten Endes
17. Postscript

Works Cited • List of Figures • Index