Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
From the Emancipation to the Holocaust
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1987) 81-101
Keywords:
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Jews, East European
;
Germany Emigration and immigration
;
Europe, Eastern Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
Traces attitudes to Yiddish among German writers, Jewish and non-Jewish, as a reflection of their attitudes to East European Jews, ranging from hostile stereotypes to appreciation. Analyzes Yiddishized German as part of the caricature of the Jew in Freytag's "Soll und Haben". Jews who felt they had become Germans through assimilation of the High German language were sensitive to antisemitic aspersions on Jewish "corruption" of the language. In the 1850s-60s, when liberal influences prevailed, non-Jewish writers viewed Yiddish as part of the German heritage, and Jewish writers wrote stories whose protagonists spoke Yiddish. From the 1870s onward, both antisemitic and Jewish rejection of Yiddish became the rule, until East European Jewish culture was rediscovered by some Jews at the turn of the century.
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