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The Elusiveness of Tolerance: The "Jewish Question" From Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars UNCSGL&L No. 117 (University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature) - Softcover

Erspamer, Peter R.

 
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ISBN 10: 1469614642 ISBN 13: 9781469614649
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

Synopsis

Peter Erspamer explores the 'Jewish question' in German literature from Lessing's Nathan der Weise in 1779 to Sessa's Unser Verkehr in 1815. He analyzes the transition from an enlightened emancipatory literature advocating tolerance in the late eighteenth century to an anti-Semitic literature with nationalistic overtones in the early nineteenth century. Erspamer examines Nathan in light of Lessing's attempts to distance himself from the excesses of his own Christian in-group through pariah identification, using an idealized member of an out-group religion as a vehicle to attack the dominant religion. He also focuses on other leading advocates of tolerance and explores changes in Jewish identity, particularly the division of German Jewry into orthodox Jews, adherents of the Haskalah, and converted Jews. The tolerance discourse ended with the Napoleonic incursions into Germany, when nationalism was on the rise and Judaism came to be viewed in racial as well as religious terms.

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About the Author

Peter R. Erspamer is visiting assistant professor of German at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1469614642
ISBN 13 
9781469614649
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
208