"Jewish Question" in German Literature, 1749-1939 Emancipation and Its Discontents

ISBN-10: 0198186312

ISBN-13: 9780198186311

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ritchie Robertson

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The Jewish Question in German Literature, 1749-1939 is an erudite and searching literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust. Trying to avoid hindsight, and drawing on a wide range of literary texts, Ritchie Robertson offers a close examination of attempts to construct a Jewish identity suitable for an increasingly secular world. He examines both literary portrayals of Jews by Gentile writers - whether antisemitic, friendly, or ambivalent - and efforts to reinvent Jewish identities by the Jews themselves, in response to antisemitism culminating in Zionism. No other…

Book details

List price: $345.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/26/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



Introduction


Enlightenment


German Jewry before Emancipation


How the Enlightenment saw the Jews


Lessing and Toleration


Emancipation: Dohm versus Humboldt


Moses Mendelssohn and the Rational Jew


Mendelssohns Legacy


Liberalism


Jews and Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century


Schnitzler: Liberalism and Irony


The European Humanism of Stefan Zweig


Freud: Science versus Religion


Antisemitism


Varieties of Antisemitism


Literary Images of the Jew Assimilation


The Meaning of Assimilation


Self-Hatred


Hyperacculturation


Dissimilation


The Jewish Renaissance


The Eastern Jews


The Jew as Oriental


Zionism


Abbreviations


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