Print version: Lerner, Paul Frederick. Consuming temple : Jews, department stores, and the consumer revolution in Germany, 1880-1940. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015 ISBN 9780801452864
Includes bibliographical references and index
Jerusalem’s terrain: the department store and its discontents in imperial Germany -- Dream worlds in motion: circulation, cosmopolitanism, and the Jewish question -- Uncanny encounters: the Thief, the Shop Girl, and the Department Store King -- Beyond the consuming temple: Jewish dissimilation and consumer modernity in provincial Germany -- The consuming fire: fantasies of destruction in German politics and culture.