TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hannah Burdekin
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Ambivalent Author
T2  - Five German Writers and their Jewish Characters, 1848-1914
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1094676
N2  - This study addresses the problems raised by the ambivalent comments about or portrayals of the Jews to be found in the writings of Gustav Freytag, Wilhelm Raabe, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Theodor Fontane and the early Thomas Mann. Why was it that these supposedly tolerant and liberal-minded men could use the language and images of antisemitism in their non-fiction and fiction? The book considers the question within the context of the unequal German-Jewish relationship in the period before, during and after Jewish emancipation. This study exposes the problematic way in which liberal-minded Germans thought about and treated the Jews in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
KW  - Raabe, Wilhelm, Freytag, Gustav, Jew, Jewish, German, Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von, Fontane, Theodor, Judentum (Motiv)
LA  - English
ER  -