This volume, edited in honour of Professor Jeffrey L. Sammons of Yale University on the occasion of his retirement, presents a series of incisive essays on German-Jewish literary and cultural history from the Enlightenment until the rise of Nazism. Key Jewish figures, including Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Börne, Rahel Varnhagen, Berthold Auerbach, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, and Jacob Wassermann, are considered in excitingly new scholarly frameworks. Also German writers and personalities, like G. E. Lessing, Goethe, Grillparzer, Jean Paul, Julius Langbehn, Houston Stewart Chamberlain and many more, are included in diverse discussions of German-Jewish literary and cultural history of this period.

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Contents: Jocelyne Kolb, Lessing's Nathan, Heine's Lessing, and the Problem of >BuchstabentreueVaterlandsliebeUrheimatBildung< and the Aesthetics of Detachment: Schnitzler's »Der Weg ins Freie«. - Peter Demetz, Speculations about Prague Yiddish and its Disappearance: From its Origins to Kafka and Brod. - Ritchie Robertson, Schnitzler and Wassermann. - Jocelyne Kolb, A Tribute to Jeffrey L. Sammons on the Occasion of his Retirement. - Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Jeffrey L. Sammons.