Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Heine-Jahrbuch
Angaben zur Quelle:
39 (2000) 184-191
Keywords:
Heine, Heinrich,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Christian converts from Judaism
Abstract:
Contends that in Germany (unlike Eastern Europe), Jewish self-emancipation from outdated and sterile Orthodoxy took place not within Jewish culture but through assimilation to German culture; Heine exemplifies this process. Suggests that assimilation should have resulted in acceptance; that this did not happen was due to economic competition in a bourgeois society that had begun to decay before it even reached full fruition, and thus could not meet the needs of all its members. Notes that antisemites opposed assimilation of Jews as part of their opposition to emancipated bourgeois society.
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