Language:
German
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
81,2 (2007) 257-281
Keywords:
Mann, Thomas,
;
Antisemitism in literature
;
German literature History and criticism
Abstract:
The description of Jewish "shehitah" (ritual slaughter of animals) which fascinated Naphta in his childhood as the son of a "shohet", and the details of Naphta's life in the Jesuit order, described in Mann's novel "Der Zauberberg" (1924), contain many misrepresentations and impossibilities that reflect common antisemitic and anti-Jesuit stereotypes and fantasies. All these misrepresentations lead in the same direction: an image of Jews and Jesuits as bloodthirsty and dangerous enemies of mankind. Naphta, the Jew concealed within the Jesuit, embodies the "Judeo-Jesuit danger", much talked about at the time.
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