Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
10,1 (2003) 78-116
Keywords:
Kraus, Karl,
;
Self-hate (Psychology)
;
Jews Identity
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Contrary to the widespread view of Kraus as merely a self-hating Jew, similar to Otto Weininger, argues that Kraus's anti-Jewish remarks served mainly as a "cultural code", i.e. a tool to align himself with non-liberal cultural values. Kraus used antisemitic discourse for strategic purposes and with considerable irony. Sometimes, however, he resorted to a more severe and earnest antisemitic discourse. In order to illustrate this, examines two essays: "Eine Krone für Zion" (1898) and "Heine und die Folgen" (1910). In the first, Kraus charged Zionism with having covertly antisemitic aims: to expel the Jews from European culture. In the second, antisemitic rhetoric is used to express Kraus's aesthetic principles and his sensitivity to the German language. He criticized Heine as a Jewish writer - creatively impotent, lacking a deep relationship with the German language, and having a feuilletonistic style. Kraus's paradoxical antisemitic rhetoric emphasized his independence as a journalist and left unresolved the question of his own place in German Jewish culture.
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