Introduction -- The Hoffaktor : a necessary evil? -- Citizens and conmen -- Heimatkunst and Hauptstadt : the portrayal of urban and rural Jewish business people in the literature of the late nineteenth century -- The challenge of the Jewish commercial spirit in the early writing of Heinrich Mann -- Responses to anti-Semitism by Jewish and non-Jewish authors -- Conclusion.
Introduction -- The Hoffaktor : a necessary evil? -- Citizens and conmen -- Heimatkunst and Hauptstadt : the portrayal of urban and rural Jewish business people in the literature of the late nineteenth century -- The challenge of the Jewish commercial spirit in the early writing of Heinrich Mann -- Responses to anti-Semitism by Jewish and non-Jewish authors -- Conclusion
