The problematics of philosemitic fiction

German Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 379-393

  Levenson, Alan ^a  

^a Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg

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EID: 58449117960     PISSN: 00168831     EISSN: 17561183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3252209     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. On Dinter see, Michael Schmidt, "Im Westen eine 'Wissenschaft' . . völkisch-faschistischen Roman der Weimerar RepublikAntisemitismus im völkisch-faschistischen Roman der WeimerarRepublik," Hans Otto Horch and Denkler. Eds., Conditio Judaica, vol 3.(Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1993) 96
2. On Freytag, see Martin Gubser, Literarischer Antisemitismusanderen bürgerlichen Schriftstellern des 19. JahrhundertsUntersuchungen zu Gustav Freytag und anderen bürgerlichen Schriftstellerndes 19. Jahrhunderts (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 1998)
3. Exceptions to this rule include: Peter R. Erspamer, The Elusiueness ofNapoleonic WarTolerance: The "Jewish Question" from Lessing to the Napoleonic War(Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997) 98-112
4. Ritchie Robertson, The "Jewish Question" in German Literature1749-1939 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999)
5. Roddler F. Morris, "Philosemitism on the German Right: The Case ofthe Novelist Walter Bloem," Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual 4: 203-59
6. Mark Gelber, "What is Literary Antisemitism?" Jewish SocialStudies 47:1 (1985): 1-20
7. Zygmunt Bauman, "Allosemitism: Premodern, Modern Postmodern,"Bryan Cheyette and LauraMarcus, Contraversions. Modernity, Culture and "theJew" (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998) 143-56
8. Peter Pulzer, Jews and the German State (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992) 15
9. Celia Applegate, A Nation of Provincials. The German Idea of Heimat(Berkeley: U of California P, 1990)
10. See Erspamer, The Elusiveness of Tolerance 106-09
11. Ruth Klüger, "Die Leiche Unterm Tisch," KatastrophenÜber deutsche Literatur (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 1994) 83-105
12. Michael Foucault, Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison (NewYork: Vintage, 1995)
13. Gavin Rendall and Gary Wickham, Using Foucault's Method (London: Sage1999)
14. Heinrich Siemer, Juda und die Andern (Berlin: Gebrueder Paetel: 1928)6-7; The opposition between Hansgeorg and Samuel is repeated consistentlythroughout the book
15. See Florian Krobb, Jüdische Frauengestalten in der DeutschsprachigenErzahlliteratur (Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 1993) passim
16. th century
17. Püschel seems to have been a member of the nationalist campoffering an example of philosemitism on the German right. See Püschel inCV-Zeitung 3 (4 Dec 1924): 769, and n. 4, above
18. Ernst Püschel, Die Juden von Kronburg: Ein Buch von deutschem Volks-und Men-schentums (Neudietendorf, 1924)
19. Pueschel avoids reflecting on Luther's and Bismarck's and Father Jahn'sambiguous legacies regarding Jews.ambiguous legacies regarding Jews
20. nd ed., (München: Georg Mueller, 1913) 18, 34
21. Hermann Jaques, Das Kreuz des Juden (Dresden: Carl Reissner, n.d.) 4
22. Johann Ferch, Mensch, nicht Jude! Roman (Leipzig: Oldenburg, 1924) 46, 60
23. Susan Suleiman, "The Jew in Jean-Paul Sartre's Reflexions sur laExercise in Historical Readingquestion juive: An Exercise in Historical Reading," Linda Nochlin and TamarGarb, eds., The Jew in the Text (London: Thames and Hudson, 1995) 210-18
24. Lessing's Jewish characters are also problematic. See Jo-JacquelineEckhardt, Lessing's "Nathan der" Weise and the Critics (Columbia:Camden House, 1993)
25. Excepting Johann Ferch's cardboard couple, Hermann Jaques's MoritzHardenstein, on a sea-cruise to nowhere, is the sole survivor of theirGerman-Jewish encounters. The paucity of happy endings to these German-Jewishencounters is unnerving considering the Liberal advocacy of completeassimilation and their role as the standard-bearers of "cultural optimism,"to invert a phrase from Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair (NewYork, 1964)