TY  - BOOK
AU  - Erspamer, Peter R.
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.5149/9781469656489_Erspamer
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200623_9781469656489_113
KW  - German Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Jewish Studies
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/13732c7d-797d-412f-80b6-145359a3e6bf/9781469656489_WEB.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39865
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
PP  - Chapel Hill
PY  - 1997
TI  - The Elusiveness of Tolerance : The “Jewish Question” From Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars
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