Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Menora; Jahrbuch für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
6 (1995) 113-135
Schlagwort(e):
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Jews in literature
;
Judaism in literature
Kurzfassung:
Discusses the characterization of the salon Jewess by novelists of the following generation, noting that almost all Jewish women in 19th-century German fiction were at least partly based on this type. While Karl Gutzkow described her admiringly, Karl Immermann ("Die Epigonen", 1836) portrayed a Jewess who is all artificiality and imitation; foreshadowing Wagner, he denied her any depth and creativity. Fanny Lewald ("Jenny", 1843) contrasted the cultured, assimilated Jewess with the vulgar half-assimilated one. But the failure of Jenny's engagement to a Christian theological student shows the precariousness of emancipation.
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