Title: The word unheard
Description: Between 1749 and 1850—the formative years of the so-called Jewish Question in Germany—the emancipation debates over granting full civil and political rights to Jews provided the topical background against which all representations of Jewish characters and concerns in literary texts were read. Helfer focuses sharply on these debates and demonstrates through close readings of works by Gotthold Lessing, Friedrich Schiller, Achim von Arnim, Annette von Droste- Hülshoff, Adalbert Stifter, and Franz Grillparzer how disciplinary practices within the field of German studies have led to systematic blind spots in the scholarship on anti-Semitism to date.
Subjects: Jews, Antisemitism in literature, Jews in literature, German literature, History and criticism, Social conditions, Antisemitism, History, German literature, history and criticism, 18th century, German literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Jews, germany, Jews, social conditions
Places: Germany
Time periods: 19th century, 18th century