Meïr Goldschmidt and the main currents in 19th-century Judaism
Although the noted nineteenth-century Danish-Jewish writer Meïr Goldschmidt (1819-1887) made his entry into literature with a novel on Jewish themes, his later novels treated non-Jewish subjects, and his Jewish heritage appeared progressively to recede into the background of his public image. Litera...
| Published in: | Nordisk judaistik |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Donner Institute
2001
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| In: |
Nordisk judaistik
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| Further subjects: | B
Authors, Danish
B Jewish literature B Danish literature B Jewish authors B Jews; Denmark |
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| Summary: | Although the noted nineteenth-century Danish-Jewish writer Meïr Goldschmidt (1819-1887) made his entry into literature with a novel on Jewish themes, his later novels treated non-Jewish subjects, and his Jewish heritage appeared progressively to recede into the background of his public image. Literary historians have paid little attention to his complex perception of his own Jewishness and have made no effort to discover the immense significance he himself felt that Judaism had for his life and for his literary works. Moreover, no previous study has comprehensively treated Goldschmidt’s far-reaching network of interrelationships with an astonishing number of other major Jewish cultural figures of nineteenth-century Europe. During his restless travels crisscrossing Europe, which were facilitated by his phenomenal knowledge of the major European languages, he habitually sought out and associated with the leading Jewish figures in literature, the arts, journalism, and religion, but this fact and the resulting mutually influential connections he formed have been overlooked and ignored. This is the first focused and documented study of the Jewish aspect of Goldschmidt’s life, so vitally important to Goldschmidt himself and so indispensable to a complete understanding of his place in Danish and in world literatures. |
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| ISSN: | 2343-4929 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nordisk judaistik
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30752/nj.69578 |