German Exile Literature in the Undergraduate Curriculum

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1 On the other hand, the most widely used Yiddish grammar, Uriel Weinreich's College Yiddish (New York: Yivo Institute, 1949), has several reading selections that deal specifically with the historical relationships between Germans and Jews. 2 Deutsche Novellen von Tieck bis Hauptmann, ed. Foulkes and Lohner (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969), 177. 3 Quoted from the Exempla Classica, Fischer Bicherei Ausgabe (Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1958), 146-47. 4 See Eduard Fuchs, Die Juden in der Karikatur (Mijnchen: Albert Langen Verlag, 1921), 3-69. s Bruno Kirschner, Deutsche Spottmedaillen auf Juden, bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Arie Kindler (Miinchen:, Ernst Battenberg Verlag, 1968), 13. 6 See Edgar Rosenberg, From Shylock to Svengali: Jewish Stereotypes in English Fiction (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1960). 7 Mosse's article The Image of the Jew in German Popular Culture: Felix Dahn and Gustav Freytag, appeared originally in Year Book II of the Leo Baeck Institute (London, 1957), 218ff. It has recently been reprinted in Mosse, Germans and Jews, Universal Library edition (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1970), 61ff. 8 In Dahn's Ein Kampf um Rom the villainous Jew is Jochem, who betrays the Goths, then dies a violent death; the good Jews are Isaac, a patriarch who has been benevolently influenced by his association with the Germanic tribes and his beautiful daughter Miriam. Both of them hate Jochem. 9 Germans and Jews, 72. 10 Hassidim, Pious Ones in Hebrew, represented a branch of Judaism which arose in Eastern Europe at the same historical moment when Mendelssohn began reforming Judaism in the West. Hassidic movement was the antithesis of Reformed Judaism; it represented a reaffirmation of Jewish separateness and Jewish culture with primary reliance on Yiddish as a means of communication. To the German Jew, Yiddish was the ultimate linguistic abomination. 11 See Fuchs, Jidische Selbstironie, in Die Juden in der Karikatur, 303ff. 12 See The Attractions, in Nazi Years, ed. Joachim Remak (Englewood Cliffs, New JerseyPrentice Hall, Inc., 1969), 71ff. 13 Henry Hatfield, Thomas Mann, New Directions Paperback edition (Norfolk, Connecticut, 1951), 28. 14 Thomas Mann, Autobiographisches, herausgegeben von Erika Mann (Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1968), 94-104, 357-58. 15 See Donald Ray Richards, German Bestseller in the 20th Century (Bern, Switzerland: Herbert Lang & Co., 1968), 100-253; and Mosse, Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich, Universal Library edition (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964)), 13-145.