Chapter II Inspiration from Abroad: The Destruction of Jerusalem and the English Precedent

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments
3. Abbreviations
4. Contents V
5. Introduction: Representations of the Destruction of Jerusalem in Nineteenth-Century German Music, Art, and Literature 1
6. Chapter I The Jews and the Destruction of Jerusalem in German Art and Oratorios of the Nineteenth Century 17
7. Digression I Straddling Cultures: Pierson 145
8. Chapter II Inspiration from Abroad: The Destruction of Jerusalem and the English Precedent 156
9. Digression II Vice in all its Ugliness: Rittershausen 254
10. Chapter III The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Trajectory of Ahasuerus: Fleeing the Conflagration or Seeking it? 267
11. Digression III The Destruction of Jerusalem and the First World War: Krane 314
12. Chapter IV The Destruction of Jerusalem as a Battleground in the Culture War 318
13. Digression IV Contest of the Gods and Contesting the Gods―The Extension of the Kulturkampf and the Rise of Humanity: Schneeberger 492
14. Chapter V The Destruction of Jerusalem in the German Jewish Literary Imagination 502
15. Digression V Berenice: belle juive, juive fatale, juive bestiale 656
16. Works Cited
17. Index 741