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

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity

Jonathan M. Hess

280 pages digital 2010

2 editions

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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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