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Goethe in German-Jewish Culture
Edited by Klaus L. Berghahn & Jost Hermand
http://www.boydell.co.uk/1791.HTM
The success of Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners
(1997) and the heated debates that followed its publication
exposed once again Germany's long tradition of anti-Semitism as a
major cause of the Holocaust. Goldhagen, like many before him,
drew a direct and irresistible line from Luther's pamphlets against
the Jews to Hitler's attempted annihilation of European Jewry. This
collection of new essays examines the thesis of a universal anti-
Semitism in Germany by focussing on its greatest author, Goethe,
and seeing to what extent some scholars are justified in accusing
him of anti-Semitism. It places the reception of Goethe's works in a
broader historical context: his relationship to Judaism and the
Jews; the reception of his works by the Jewish elite in Germany,
the reception of the 'Goethe cult' by Jewish scholars; and the
Jewish contribution to Goethe scholarship. The last section of the
volume treats the Jewish contribution to Goethe's fame and to
Goethe philology since the 19th century, and the exodus of many
Jewish authors and scholars after 1933, when they took their
beloved Goethe into exile. When a few of them returned to
Germany after 1945, it was to a country that had lost Goethe's
most devoted audience, the German Jews.
KLAUS L. BERGHAHN and JOST HERMAND are professors of
German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
203 pages
Size: 9 x 6 in
ISBN: 1 57113 323 2
Binding: Hardback
First published: 2001
Price: 55.00 USD, 35.00 GBP
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