Axel Stähler
This book explores in a comparative approach the astounding medial variety and intermedial interleaving of cultural engagements with the subject of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple by the Romans in nineteenth-century Germany. Its main argument is that the pervasive discursive presence of the historical occurrence constitutes a significant but so far largely neglected arena for the negotiation of shifting German and Jewish imaginaries in which both German and Jewish creative minds engaged. Interpreted as pivotal not only for the progression of the history of salvation but also of universal history and responding to such decisive socio-cultural and political developments as the Kulturkampf and the rise of nationalism and antisemitism, the profusion of cultural engagements with the subject reveals its frequently contradictory polyvalence in the tense atmosphere of national unification, the negotiation of religious and national identities, and the positioning of the Jewish other; but also as a vehicle of Jewish self-definition and self-assertion in a period of proliferating antisemitism. The book addresses a broad readership of scholars of the culture of the nineteenth century, of intermediality, and of antisemitism.
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Contents
VOpen AccessIntroduction: Representations of the Destruction of Jerusalem in Nineteenth-Century German Music, Art, and Literature
1Open AccessChapter I The Jews and the Destruction of Jerusalem in German Art and Oratorios of the Nineteenth Century
17Open AccessDigression I Straddling Cultures: Pierson
145Open AccessChapter II Inspiration from Abroad: The Destruction of Jerusalem and the English Precedent
156Open AccessDigression II Vice in all its Ugliness: Rittershausen
254Open AccessChapter III The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Trajectory of Ahasuerus: Fleeing the Conflagration or Seeking it?
267Open AccessDigression III The Destruction of Jerusalem and the First World War: Krane
314Open AccessChapter IV The Destruction of Jerusalem as a Battleground in the Culture War
318Open AccessDigression IV Contest of the Gods and Contesting the Gods―The Extension of the Kulturkampf and the Rise of Humanity: Schneeberger
492Open AccessChapter V The Destruction of Jerusalem in the German Jewish Literary Imagination
502Open AccessDigression V Berenice: belle juive, juive fatale, juive bestiale
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