Destruction of Jerusalem in Nineteenth-Century German Culture (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
870
Utgivningsdatum
2025-07-21
Förlag
De Gruyter
ISBN
9783111540085

Destruction of Jerusalem in Nineteenth-Century German Culture

av Axel Stähler
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2025-07-21
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This book explores in a comparative approach the astounding medial variety and intermedial interleaving of cultural engagements with the subject of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple by the Romans in nineteenth-century Germany. Its main argument is that the pervasive discursive presence of the historical occurrence constitutes a significant but so far largely neglected arena for the negotiation of shifting German and Jewish imaginaries in which both German and Jewish creative minds engaged. Interpreted as pivotal not only for the progression of the history of salvation but also of universal history and responding to such decisive socio-cultural and political developments as the Kulturkampf and the rise of nationalism and antisemitism, the profusion of cultural engagements with the subject reveals its frequently contradictory polyvalence in the tense atmosphere of national unification, the negotiation of religious and national identities, and the positioning of the Jewish other; but also as a vehicle of Jewish self-definition and self-assertion in a period of proliferating antisemitism. The book addresses a broad readership of scholars of the culture of the nineteenth century, of intermediality, and of antisemitism.
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Axel Stähler, University of Bern, Switzerland.

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