Includes bibliographical references (p. [505]-520) and index.
Contents
German Jewry before emancipation -- How the enlightenment saw the Jews -- Lessing and toleration -- Emancipation : Dohm versus Humboldt -- Moses Mendelssohn and the rational Jew -- Mendelssohn's legacy -- Jews and liberalism in the nineteenth century -- Schnitzler : liberalism and irony -- The European humanism of Stefan Zweig -- Freud : science versus religion -- Varieties of antisemitism -- Literary images of the Jew -- The meaning of assimilation -- Self-hatred -- Hyperacculturation -- The Jewish Renaissance -- The Eastern Jews -- The Jew as Oriental -- Zionism.
