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GERMAN LITERATURE BETWEEN FAITHS STUDIES IN G...

Religion is a central concern of German literature in all centuries  and the canon looks
different when this perspective is acknowledged. For example  Goethe's fascination with evil is
difficult to disentangle from the Holocaust  Moses Mendelssohn is as profound as the playwright
who portrayed him  and «Princess Sabbath» deserves to be numbered among Heine's more enchanting
lyrics. This essay collection posits  and tests  the hypothesis that German literature at its
best is often an expression or investigation of Judaism or Christianity at their best  but that
the best German literature is not always the best-known  and vice versa. Asking whether the New
Testament is anti-Jewish (and answering in the negative)  essayists range through the German
centuries from The Heliand to Kafka and Thomas Mann.

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