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  1. Jews in business and their representation in German literature, 1827-1934
    Author: Ward, John
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783034301268; 9783035300451
    RVK Categories: GL 1461
    Series: Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur ; no. 53
    Subjects: German literature; German literature; Jews in literature; Businessmen in literature; Antisemitism in literature; Judenbild; Geschäftsmann <Motiv>; Juden <Motiv>; Literatur; Deutsch
    Scope: viii, 250 p
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-244) and index

    Introduction -- The Hoffaktor : a necessary evil? -- Citizens and conmen -- Heimatkunst and Hauptstadt : the portrayal of urban and rural Jewish business people in the literature of the late nineteenth century -- The challenge of the Jewish commercial spirit in the early writing of Heinrich Mann -- Responses to anti-Semitism by Jewish and non-Jewish authors -- Conclusion
  2. Jews in business and their representation in German literature, 1827-1934
    Author: Ward, John
    Published: ©2010
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783035300451; 3035300453; 303430126X; 9783034301268
    Series: British and Irish studies in German language and literature ; 53
    Subjects: German literature / 19th century / History and criticism; German literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Jews in literature; Businessmen in literature; Antisemitism in literature; German literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German; Antisemitism in literature / (OCoLC)fst00810783; Businessmen in literature / (OCoLC)fst00842977; German literature / (OCoLC)fst00941797; Jews in literature / (OCoLC)fst00983388
    Scope: 1 online resource (viii, 250 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index

    Introduction -- The Hoffaktor : a necessary evil? -- Citizens and conmen -- Heimatkunst and Hauptstadt : the portrayal of urban and rural Jewish business people in the literature of the late nineteenth century -- The challenge of the Jewish commercial spirit in the early writing of Heinrich Mann -- Responses to anti-Semitism by Jewish and non-Jewish authors -- Conclusion
  3. Jews in Business and their Representation in German Literature 1827-1934
    Author: Ward, John
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Oxford

    This book gives an account of the literary representation of Jews as businessmen from the early nineteenth century to the onset of the Third Reich. The historical context provides the background for an examination of the literary representation of... more

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    This book gives an account of the literary representation of Jews as businessmen from the early nineteenth century to the onset of the Third Reich. The historical context provides the background for an examination of the literary representation of Jewish businessmen and presents evidence for the perpetuation, transformation, and combination of stereotypes. The double bind of assimilation - that the Jews were vilified whether they succeeded or failed - is illustrated from literary treatments by the Romantic writer Wilhelm Hauff and the early twentieth-century writers Lion Feuchtwanger and Paul

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9783034301268
    Scope: Online-Ressource (266 p)
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    The image of the Jewish businessman in Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben 61The characteristic behaviour of Jewish businessmen as portrayed in Soll und Haben 71; The implications of Soll und Haben for the image of the Jew in German literature 77; The portrayal of Jewish business practice in two of the works of Gustav Freytag's Jewish contemporaries 82; The legacy of Soll und Haben 88; Chapter Three - 'Heimatkunst' and 'Hauptstadt': The Portrayal of Urban and Rural Jewish Business People in the Literature of the Late Nineteenth Century 93

    The image of the 'nefarious' Jewish businessman in Wilhelm von Polenz's Der Büttnerbauer 93Theodor Fontane's 'Judenbild' 113; Shylock unter Bauern: a Nazi epilogue 131; Chapter Four - The Challenge of the 'Jewish Commercial Spirit' in the Early Writing of Heinrich Mann 137; Heinrich von Treitschke: a 'respectable' anti-Semite? 141; 'Gefühl' and stereotype: the image of the Jewish plutocrat 145; The Jewish commercial spirit and aesthetics in Schauspielerin 156; Chapter Five - Responses to Anti-Semitism by Jewish and Non-Jewish Authors 167; Jettchen Gebert's story: a limited symbiosis 167

    The Berlin Geberts as paragons of Jewish 'Bürgerlichkeit' 170'Tachlis': a Jewish businessman's world view 175; The role of the Eastern Jews 180; Der neue Ahasver: impossible or unwanted assimilation? 184; A professional career as a means of 'overcoming' Jewishness 187; 'Destructive' Jewish occupations 191; Self-hatred 203; The Cultural Zionist message in Lothar Brieger-Wasservogel's René Richter 206; Hermann Bahr's Die Rotte Korahs: a philosemitic gentile response 215; Conclusion 231; Bibliography 237; Index 245;

    Contents; Acknowledgements ix; Introduction 1; The cautionary tale 4; Embourgeoisement and 'decomposition' 5; 'Verjudung' 10; Symbiosis 13; Chapter One - The 'Hoffaktor': A Necessary Evil? 19; The Jud Süß motif in the writings of Wilhelm Hauff, Lion Feuchtwanger and Paul Kornfeld 19; The Süß case 21; The age of Josef Süß Oppenheimer 23; Modernisation, reform and setbacks 29; Wilhelm Hauff 's Jud Süß 31; Hauff 's Jud Süß in the context of Jewish business after the Edict of Emancipation of 1812 36; The treatment of the Jud Süß case in the 1920s 48; Chapter Two - Citizens and Conmen 61