Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity by Jonathan M. Hess

Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Jonathan M. Hess

280 pages • first pub 2010 (view editions)

nonfiction history literary informative reflective medium-paced
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For generations of German-speaking Jews, the works of Goethe and Schiller epitomized the world of European high culture, a realm that Jews actively participated in as both readers and consumers. Yet from the 1830s on, Jews writing in German also p...

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