Confrontations / Accommodations: German-Jewish Literary and Cultural Relations from Heine to Wassermann

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This volume, edited in honour of Professor Jeffrey L. Sammons of Yale University on the occasion of his retirement, presents a series of incisive essays on German-Jewish literary and cultural history from the Enlightenment until the rise of Nazism. Key Jewish figures, including Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Böouml;rne, Rahel Varnhagen, Berthold Auerbach, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, and Jacob Wassermann, are considered in excitingly new scholarly frameworks. Also German writers and personalities, like G. E. Lessing, Goethe, Grillparzer, Jean Paul, Julius Langbehn, Houston Stewart Chamberlain and many more, are included in diverse discussions of German-Jewish literary and cultural history of this period. Contents Introduction Lessing’s Nathan, Heine’s Lessing, and the Problem of Buchstabentreue ›Vaterlandsliebe‹ in Exile: Heinrich Heine and German-Jewish National Identity The Noble Sephardi and the Degenerate Ashkenazi in German-Jewish and German-Anti-Semitic Consciousness: Heine, Langbehn, Chamberlain Mutmaßungen und zweifelhafte Dokumente innerhalb der Heine-Biographie. Ein Bericht aus dem Heine-Archiv, Düsseldorf Die Goethe-Rezeption bei Heine und Börne. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des deutschen Judentums »Soviel Franzose wie Deutscher«. Ludwig Börnes politischer und literarischer Internationalismus Preaching to (and by) the Converted: Jews in the Crossfire of the Kölner Kirchenstreit Mainstreaming the Margins: Rahel Varnhagen at the End of the Twentieth Century Heimat – Fremde – ›Urheimat‹. Zur Funktion jüdischer Nebenfiguren in Berthold Auerbachs Dorfgeschichten »Nun auf die Juden!« Literarische Sittengemälde aus Westfalen Esther – eine Figur des Theaters. Drei paradigmatische Aneignungen: Grillparzer, Racine, Goethe Failed Bildung and the Aesthetics of Detachment: Schnitzler’s Der Weg ins Freie Speculations about Prague Yiddish and its Disappearance: From its Origins to Kafka and Brod Schnitzler and Wassermann A Tribute to Jeffrey L. Sammons on the Occasion of his Retirement Selected Bibliography of the Writings of Jeffrey L. Sammons List of Contributors Index