The Jewish Reception of Heinrich Heine

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This volume contains the lectures, many substantially expanded and revised, which were delivered at an international conference held at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheva in 1990. By utilizing the methodological guidelines and insights of reception aesthetics, a range of Jewish readings of Heine's works and his complex literary personality are analyzed. Considerations of his impact on major figures, like Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Karl Kraus, Else Lasker-Schüler, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Max Brod comprise the major part of the book. In addition, there are readings of Heine by minor or neglected Jewish writers and poets, including, for example, Aron Bernstein and Fritz Heymann, and by Jewish writers in Hebrew and Yiddish literature, as well as by Jewish readers within other national readerships, for example, the American and Croatian. In the process of this analysis, the notion of Jewish reception itself is naturally subjected to critical scrutiny. Introduction The Exhaustion of Current Heine Studies: Some Observations, Partly Speculative Homeric Laughter by the Rivers of Babylon: Heinrich Heine and Karl Marx Under the Influence of Heinrich Heine: Aron Bernstein as a Writer and Literary Critic The Impact of Heine on Nineteenth-Century German-Jewish Writers Heine and the Yiddish Poets Freud Reads Heine Reads Freud Heine’s Body. Heine’s Corpus. Sexuality and Jewish Identity in Karl Kraus’s Literary Polemics Against Heinrich Heine Bacherach and Barcelona: On Else Lasker-Schüler’s Relation to Heinrich Heine The Heine Cult in Hebrew Literature of the 1890s and its Russian Context Heine, Herzl, and Nordau: Aspects of the Early Zionist Reception Heinrich Heine’s Jewish Reception in Croatia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries Lion Feuchtwanger’s Discovery of Himself in Heinrich Heine Max Brod’s Presentation of Heinrich Heine Fritz Heymann’s Approach to Heine Jewish Reception as the Last Phase of the American Heine Reception Appendix Moi’se, Heine, Celan (English Translation by Jay Shir) Contributors Index