The Destruction of Jerusalem in Nineteenth-Century German Culture

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-154008-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, 806 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 1290 g

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 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.

Zielgruppe

Literary studies scholars, music scholars, scholars in the fields

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stähler, Axel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Axel Stähler, Universität Bern, Schweiz.

Axel Stähler, University of Bern, Switzerland.