num_pages: 218
description: Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schoenberg--all were Jews who considered themselves more European than Jewish. Yet their experience of anti-Semitism and injustice undermined a full commitment to their native German or Austrian heritage. Their writings about Moses are the focal point in this eloquent book about Jewish identity and assimilation, tradition and cultural allegiance.
language: English
title: Reinscribing Moses: Heine, Kafka, Freud, and Schoenberg in a European Wilderness
titlecomplete: Reinscribing Moses: Heine, Kafka, Freud, and Schoenberg in a European Wilderness
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Harvard University Press