The elusiveness of tolerance the "Jewish question" from Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars
Analyzing literary works - from Lessing's "Nathan der Weise" (1779) to Sessa's "Unser Verkehr" (1812/15) - and political and philosophical tracts, shows the transition from an enlightened, emancipatory literature to an antisemitic literature in the early 19th century. T...
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
2020, [2020]©1997
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| Series: | UNC studies in the Germanic languages and literatures
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Table of Contents:
- The beginnings of the tolerance debate
- Jewish identity in a changing world
- Emancipatory drama after Lessing
- Myths of ethnic homogeneity : anti-Semitic literature after 1800
- Concluding remarks : beyond the tolerance debate
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index