EAN: 9783034301268

JEWS IN BUSINESS AND THEIR REPRESENTATION IN GE...

This book gives an account of the literary representation of Jews as businessmen from the early
nineteenth century to the onset of the Third Reich. The historical context provides the
background for an examination of the literary representation of Jewish businessmen and presents
evidence for the perpetuation  transformation  and combination of stereotypes. The double bind
of assimilation - that the Jews were vilified whether they succeeded or failed - is illustrated
from literary treatments by the Romantic writer Wilhelm Hauff and the early twentieth-century
writers Lion Feuchtwanger and Paul Kornfeld of the historical figure of 'Jud Süß Oppenheimer'.
Gustav Freytag's use of the Jews as 'counter-ideals' in his notorious bestseller Soll und Haben
(1855) and the onset of racial anti-Semitism in Wihelm von Polenz's Der Büttnerbauer (1895) are
illustrative of how literary anti-Semitism hardened in the course of the nineteenth century.
The book considers a number of literary texts  some well known  some less familiar  which are
revealing of the way in which Jewish-Gentile relations were imagined in their time.

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