Language:
German
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Deutsche Exilpresse und Frankreich
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1992) 9-22
Keywords:
Schoenberg, Arnold,
;
Döblin, Alfred,
;
Zweig, Arnold,
;
Jews History 1918-1933
;
Zionism
Abstract:
A lecture delivered at a symposium in Paris, December 1989. Seeks the origins of the conversion of Schoenberg, Döblin, and Arnold Zweig to Jewish nationalism, unusual among German Jews. Schoenberg, an Austrian monarchist who converted in 1898 to Protestantism, was accused in Germany in the 1920s of composing un-German, "Semitic" music. His situation caused him to write two essays in 1923, not for publication, in which he declared that he was no longer a German or European but only a Jew. Later, in France and in the U.S., he agitated for a United Jewish Party which was to give up the hopeless fight against antisemitism and work for a Jewish state. Döblin, also from an assimilated background, broke with Germany in 1933; he, too, declared himself no longer a German but a Jew, and worked for Jewish territorialism. Zweig became a Zionist already in the First World War. All three were attacked for their nationalism by other German Jews, and all three eventually became disillusioned and recognized the importance to them of the German side of their identity.
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