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- Title
Fictions of a German-Jewish Public: Ludwig Jacobowski's Werther the Jew and Its Readers.
- Authors
Hess, Jonathan M.
- Abstract
This article comments on German Jewish author Ludwig Jacobowski's novel "Werther the Jew." Jacobowski's novel seeks to combat antisemitism by envisioning a scenario in which Jews will embody the grandeur of German classical humanism. As he explains in his preface, the "radical-national movement of the present" make it difficult for German Jews to lay claim to being German. Jacobowski himself cast his protagonist Leo Wolff, a philosophy student in Berlin, as representative for a new generation of Jews born and raised in the German Reich in an environment permeated by hatred.
- Subjects
WERTHER the Jew (Book); JACOBOWSKI, Ludwig; JEWISH fiction; GERMAN Jews; ANTISEMITISM; RACISM
- Publication
Jewish Social Studies, 2005, Vol 11, Issue 2, p202
- ISSN
0021-6704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jss.2005.0015