Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
German Studies Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
12,3 (1989) 469-485
Keywords:
Feuchtwanger, Lion,
;
Rathenau, Walther,
Abstract:
Examines Lion Feuchtwanger's novel "Jud Süss" (1925) and compares the character of Oppenheimer, a Court Jew in the 18th century, with the life and philosophy of Walther Rathenau, Foreign Minister in the Weimar Republic, who was murdered in 1924 by antisemites. Argues that both Oppenheimer and Rathenau tried to penetrate a fundamentally hostile society, were faced with discrimination as Jews, but refused to convert to Christianity. States that the Nazis used Rathenau's book "Höre Israel", calling for the total integration of the Jew into German society and including "race theories", for their own propaganda. Discusses the use of stereotypes in the book, such as the "Ostjude", and how this stereotype differed in the 18th century and during the Weimar Republic.
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