From the end of the 18th century Jewish German history shows a pattern of emancipation and counter-emancipation which this study describes in detail. Evidence is taken from the diaries and correspondence of Jewish and non-Jewish intellectuals as well as from the fictional literature of the time. The rise of civic and literary anti-Semitism is documented, and the attitudes of personalities such as Wilhelm von Humboldt, Bettina and Achim von Arnim, Rahel Varnhagen, Dorothea Schlegel, Goethe and Boerne are examined.
| ISBN: | 9783261044600 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1992 |
| Author: | Rachel Jakobowicz |
| Publisher: | Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften an imprint of Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissen |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Series: | Australisch-Neuseelandische Studien Zur Deutschen Sprache Und : Australian and New Zealand Studies in German Language And |
| Genres: |
Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Sociology and anthropology |