Language:
German
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Nordisk Judaistik
Angaben zur Quelle:
25,1 (2004) 57-78
Keywords:
Goldschmidt, Meir,
;
Blicher, Steen Steensen,
;
Gyllembourg, Thomasine,
;
Hauch, C.
;
Ingemann, Bernhard Severin,
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Danish fiction History and criticism
;
Danish fiction Jewish authors
;
History and criticism
;
Jews History 19th century
;
Jews in literature
Abstract:
The period between 1820-50 saw a consolidation of modern Danish bourgeois society, and, in this connection, a concern with the integration of the outsider, the Jew. To attain this integration, the Jew would have to assimilate and, in most cases, convert to Christianity. All the major Danish writers of this period wrote novels and stories with Jewish protagonists: stereotypical "noble Jews" who achieved this integration, sometimes contrasted with stereotypes of despicable Jews. Only the Jewish writer Meïr Aron Goldschmidt, in his novel "En Jøde" (1845/52), ignored the stereotypes and represented a real Jew, his inner and outer struggles, and his retreat to the backward Jewish community after Danish society failed to accept his seemingly successful acculturation.
Note:
Appeared also in "Figurationen des Jüdischen" (2020) 25-46.
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