TY  - GEN
AU  - Erspamer,Peter R.
TI  - The Elusiveness of Tolerance : The “Jewish Question” From Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars
SN  - 9781469656489_Erspamer
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Literature: history & criticism
KW  - bicssc
KW  - German Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Jewish Studies
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39865/1/9781469656489_WEB.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31976
ER  -