Jewish-German identity in the orientalist literature of Else Lasker-Schüler, Friedrich Wolf, and Franz Werfel

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Jewish-German identity in the orientalist literature of Else Lasker-Schüler, Friedrich Wolf, and Franz Werfel

Donna K. Heizer

Camden House, c1996

1st ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [97]-105) and index

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First study of Jewish-German Orientalist literature as revealed in the works of three important twentieth-century authors. This pioneering volume is the first to examine the phenomenon of Jewish-German orientalist literature. For many Jewish-German authors of the twentieth-century, the Orient represented an imaginative space where they could analyse their position as Jews in German society, and come to terms with a divided identity. Here, representations of Muslims and Islamicate cultures in the works of popular and respected authors who were nevertheless often seen as Jewish,Oriental 'others' by the German-speaking societies in which they lived are explored. Lasker-Schuler's Die Nachte Tino von Bagdads (1907) and Der Prinz von Theben (1912) create a timeless Orient filled with visionaryartists like herself, while Wolf's Mohammed: Ein Oratorium (1922) depicts the Orient as the birthplace of the message of justice espoused by Islam: through it Wolf reaches a new understanding of his position as a progressive Jew in a war-torn German society. In Werfel's Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh (1933), the author uses the conflict between Turks and Armenians to explore his own religiosity.

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