Meditations on Jewish creative identity : representations of the Jewish artist in the works of German-Jewish writers from Heine to Feuchtwanger / Helen Ferstenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferstenberg, Helen, 1967-

Contributor:

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Series:

North American studies in nineteenth-century German literature ; v. 34.

North American studies in nineteenth-century German literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--19th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

German literature--Jewish authors.

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Germany.

Intellectual life.

Judaism and literature--Germany.

Judaism and literature.

Jews--Germany--Identity.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Artists in literature.

Jews in literature.

Physical Description:

229 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : P. Lang, [2004]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Jewishness, Poesy, and the Artist in the Writings of Heinrich Heine 17

Chapter 2 Assimilation and the Artist: Berthold Auerbach's and Karl Emil Franzos's Meditations on Jewish Creative Identity 61

Chapter 3 The Difference of the Jewish Artist: Arthur Schnitzler and Debates on Jewish Creativity in the Viennese Fin-de-Siecle 123

Chapter 4 The Artist Beyond German Culture: Zionist Thought, the Search for an Alternative Jewish Creative Identity, and the Case of Lion Feuchtwanger 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-226) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

3039101528

0820469629

OCLC:

54035096