Darstellungen von Juden in der dänischen Erzählliteratur des poetischen Realismus

Between 1820 and 1850, nearly all major Danish authors (e.g. B.S. Ingemann, C. Hauch, H.C. Andersen, Th. Gyllembourg and St. St. Blicher) chose Jewish characters, mainly "noble Jews", as protagonists for short stories and novels. This "boom" was on the one hand a direct rejection...

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Published in:Nordisk judaistik
Main Author: Schnurbein, Stefanie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:German
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Published: Donner Institute 2004
In: Nordisk judaistik
Further subjects:B Jewish authors
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Summary:Between 1820 and 1850, nearly all major Danish authors (e.g. B.S. Ingemann, C. Hauch, H.C. Andersen, Th. Gyllembourg and St. St. Blicher) chose Jewish characters, mainly "noble Jews", as protagonists for short stories and novels. This "boom" was on the one hand a direct rejection of the overtly anti-Semitic discussions in the literary jødefejden of 1813 and a reaction to the pogrom like attacks on Jews in Denmark in 1819. It can thus be understood as a favorable contribution to the discussions on Jewish emancipation in Denmark. On the other hand, this article demonstrates how the Jewish literary characters serve as the stereotypical "Other" that has to be assimilated and can prove the integrative and harmonizing abilities of the emerging Danish bourgeois society. A contrasting reading of the Danish-Jewish author M.A. Goldschmidt’s debut novel En Jøde (A Jew, 1845/1852) reveals the inner contradictions of these idealizations and the ensuing irreconcilable and ultimately lethal double-binds a Jewish individual who is willing to integrate.
ISSN:2343-4929
Contains:Enthalten in: Nordisk judaistik
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.30752/nj.69608