The Jewish Question in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and Its Discontents

by Ritchie Robertson

This book is an erudite literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust. Drawing on a wide range of literary texts, Ritchie Robertson offers a close examination of attempts to construct a Jewish identity suitable for an increasingly secular world. No other study by a single author deals with German-Jewish relations so comprehensively...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198186312
• ISBN13: 9780198186311
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"