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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Erspamer, Peter R. (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Edition:[Open access ebook edition]
Series:University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 117.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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