Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
39 (1994) 3-29
Keywords:
Varnhagen, Rahel,
;
Robert, Ludwig,
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
;
Jews History 1500-
;
Jews Identity
;
Jews Emancipation
Abstract:
Although they were baptized, both Rahel Varnhagen and her brother, playwright Ludwig Robert (born Lipman Levin), did not lose their interest in Jewish matters. Pp. 23-29 show their reaction to the rise of German antisemitism in the period after the Napoleonic wars. Both of them comment bitterly on the anti-Jewish "Hep!-Hep!" riots in Karlsruhe and Heidelberg (which Robert witnessed). Both write about the pogroms as symptoms of an illness. Robert relates to an incident between a Jew, Moritz Itzig, and the German poet Achim von Arnim, which had an antisemitic flavor. In his comedy "Cassius und Phantasus oder der Paradiesvogel, " Robert attempted to parody a stereotypical image of the Jew persisting in contemporary German literature.
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/39.1.3
URL:
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