REVIEW: Jeffrey A. Grossman. BEYOND DIALOGUE: NEW SCHOLARSHIP IN GERMAN-JEWISH STUDIES: THE DISCOURSE ON YIDDISH IN GERMANY. FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE SECOND EMPIRE. and Noah Isenberg. BETWEEN REDEMPTION AND DOOM: THE STRAINS OF GERMAN-JEWISH MODERNISM. and Florian Krobb. SELBSTDARSTELLUNGEN: UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR DEUTSCH-JüDISCHEN ERZäHLLITERATUR IM NEUNZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERT. and Jeffrey S. Librett. THE RHETORIC OF CULTURAL DIALOGUE: JEWS AND GERMANS FROM MOSES MENDELSSOHN TO RICHARD WAGNER AND BEYOND. and Irving Massey. PHILO-SEMITISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN LITERATURE. and Paul Mendes-Flohr. GERMAN JEWS: A DUAL IDENTITY.

Prooftexts ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 242
Author(s):  
Gillman
Keyword(s):  
German Literature ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
German Jews ◽  
Moses Mendelssohn ◽  
Dual Identity ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
German Jewish

Hiob in Gath. Deutsch-jüdische Lektüren von Lessings "Nathan der Weise"

2005 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justus Fetscher
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Moses Mendelssohn ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe paper presents a series of German-Jewish readings of Lessing's "Nathan the Wise" (1779) stretching from the Enlightenment to the early post-1945 period. Already the first Jewish reader, Moses Mendelssohn, did not focus his interpretation of this drama on the so-called "parabel of the rings," where Nathan is commonly said to preach religious tolerance. Rather, Mendelssohn concentrates on act IV, scene 7, which expounds Lessing's concept of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity and Nathan's experience of Christian persecution. With the upsurge of German anti-Semitism in the late 19th and 20th century, this scene served first as a sign of German-Christian empathy for Jewish suffering, and thus of hope, then as a reminder of recent prosecutions. It seemed to foreshadow, and eventually became overshadowed by, the Shoah.

The Crisis of Enlightenment: Cultural and Literary Discourses on Traditions of German Culture within Jewish Cultural Circles in National Socialist Germany

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Schoor
Keyword(s):  
National Socialist ◽  
German Empire ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
German Jews ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
Jewish Descent ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article explores the self-conceptions of German Jews in National Socialist Germany in the context of a critical rereading of 1930s receptions of the German and European Enlightenment. The transformation of the Jewish community and Jewish culture into a part of bourgeois society had taken place in the course of the German and European Enlightenment, from its beginnings to the foundation of the German Empire in 1871. The efforts of the Jewish minority to ‘emancipate’ itself from any form of heteronomy from around 1820—to become self-reliant and responsible citizens in thought and deed—had become a kind of symbol for the progressive reasoning of the Enlightenment. Consequently, given the aggressive antisemitic policies of the National Socialist state, the German-Jewish relationship to the Enlightenment in internal and public debates after 1933 must be viewed as key when exploring the externally damaged self-conceptions of large parts of the German-Jewish minority. For the writers and artists of Jewish descent examined in this article, the relationship to the Enlightenment—and to German and Jewish culture—was once more open to debate.

A German-Jewish Existence: Stéphane Mosès and the Establishment of German Literature Studies at the Hebrew University

Naharaim ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Livne ◽  
Irene Aue-Ben-David
Keyword(s):  
German Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Hebrew University ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
Literature And Language

Abstract The paper is dealing with the foundation of the Division for German Literature and Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from the point of view of its first head, Prof. Stéphane Mosès.

German-Jewish Literature and Culture and the Field of German-Jewish Studies

2007 ◽  
pp. 165-184
Author(s):  
Mark H. Gelber
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
German Society ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
European Culture ◽  
German Jewish

This chapter delineates the parameters of developments and relationships to the 'Jewish contribution discourse'. It notes the marginality of Jewish culture in present-day Germany that has enabled the emergence of the quintessential post-modern field of cultural studies in Germany and the basis for diverse criticism. It also mentions Moritz Goldstein, who boldly claimed in his 'Deutsch-jüdischer Parnass' that the Jews in Germany had become the custodians and arbiters of the spiritual treasures of German society. The chapter explores the understanding of European culture as largely Jewish, which militates against the idea of a possible Jewish contribution to that culture since the term 'contribution' appears to make little sense if the Jewish element is the dominant one. It explains the concept of a contribution that rests on the notion of a dominant host culture to which guests might contribute.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 261-266
Author(s):  
Philipp Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Life ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
German Government ◽  
German Jews ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Camp System ◽  
German Jewish

THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT might have intended to eliminate Jewish life in Germany, and it succeeded in depriving of their German lives the individuals who illustrated the (im)possibilities of Jews being engaged on and with the German Right in this book. Yet it did not succeed in ending their lives altogether. The majority of the German Jews appearing on these pages managed to survive the Holocaust, through emigration, hiding, or perseverance in the concentration camp system. After the Holocaust they gave testimony, archived their records, and collected those of others. Without their efforts this book on German Jewish conservatives would not exist; and though it ends with their emigration—all but one never returned to Germany for any lengthy period of time—their individual stories were not over. By briefly recounting their lives after 1938, I want to conclude by paying them my respects....

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