Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Menora; Jahrbuch für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
13 (2002) 289-312
Keywords:
Goldstein, Moritz,
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
Abstract:
Describes four approaches to the problematic subject of German-Jewish literature: the antisemitic, exemplified by Adolf Bartels, which called for purifying German literature of this foreign, merely imitative element; that of Jewish assimilationists like Ludwig Geiger, who insisted, in opposition to Bartels as well as to the Zionists, that Jews write German literature (without a hyphen), even though it might well be on Jewish themes; the cultural-Zionist position, which accepted that Jews could not be integrated in German culture but should write a distinctive Jewish literature, even if in German or other West European languages; and finally, Jews like Stefan Zweig who took this position a step further and celebrated the universalism and cosmopolitanism, the very rootlessness of the Diaspora Jew.
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