On the occasion of linguistic mimesis

Paul Reitter. The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-siècle Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii + 254 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-70970-3. Reviewed by Leena Petersen (Center for German Jewish Studies and Center for Modern European Cultural History, Department of History, University of Sussex and Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).