Goethe in German-Jewish Culture

New essays examining Goethe's relationship to the Jews, and the contribution of Jewish scholars to the fame of the greatest German writer.

List of contents

Patterns of Childhood: Goethe and the Jews - Klaus L. Berghahn
Goethe and the Concept of Bildungin Jewish Emancipation - Ehrhard Bahr
Demarcations and Projections: Goethe in the Berlin Salons - Barbara Hahn
A View from Below: H. Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Jost Hermand
Cultural History as Enlightenment: Remarks on Ludwig Geiger's Experiences of Judaism, Philology, and Goethe - Christoph Koenig
Waiting for Goethe: Goethe Biographies from Ludwig Geiger to Friedrich Gundolf - Brenda Machosky
Waiting for Goethe: Goethe Biographies from Ludwig Geiger to Friedrich Gundolf - Marcel Rotter
Waiting for Goethe: Goethe Biographies from Ludwig Geiger to Friedrich Gundolf - Hope Hague
From the Pedestal to the Couch: Goethe, Freud, and Jewish Assimilation - Robert C. Holub
Upholding the Ideals of the "Other Germany": German-Jewish Goethe Scholars in U.S. Exile - Gisela Hoecherl-Alden
"Humanitätssalbader": Goethe's Distaste for Jewish Emancipation and Jewish Responses -
The Insufficient as Event: Goethe Lesson at the Frankfurt School - Karla L. Schultz

About the author

Klaus L. Berghahn, Jost Hermand

Product details

• Authors: Klaus L. Berghahn, Jost Hermand
• Assisted by: Klaus L Berghahn (Editor), Klaus L. Berghahn (Editor), Jost Hermand (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2001
• EAN: 9781571133236
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-323-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 237 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 503 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Deutsch, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, Literature - Classics / Criticism