Moritz Goldsteins ›Deutsch-jüdischer Parnaß‹: Politische Kampfschrift und unpolitisches Bekenntnis
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Manfred Voigts
Abstract: The ›Kunstwart‹-debate of 1912 – which was provoked by the almost unknown Moritz Goldstein ’s essay ›Deutsch-jüdischer Parnaß‹,– is usually regarded as one of the most important debates of the pre-war years. Goldstein saw himself misinterpreted, however, because he had not intended to write a political text but a private confession, a description of the unsolvable problem of being grown up within the German culture and the decision to support the growing up of a Jewish culture. Goldstein demanded a Jewish literature but acknowledged at the same time that a German writer was unable to achieve this. His self-assessment never has been taken seriously. In this paper the attempt is made to read Goldstein ’s essay as a political statement but likewise as a literary confession. He was as much enthralled by Zionism as by the culture of Wilhelm II’s Germany and its ideal of honour.
© De Gruyter 2014
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- 10.1515/asch-2014-frontmatter2
- Vorwort
- Das Schwarze Quadrat und die jüdische Kunst: Chagall, Lisickij und Malevič in Vitebsk
- The Yiddish »Children’s Republic« of Malakhovka. A Revolutionary Experiment in Education
- Referenz, Inter-Referenz, Interferenz: Jiddisch bei Babel
- The Stalin Constitution on Trial in the Yiddish Daily Newspaper Forverts, 1936–1937
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- In Search of a Soviet Yiddishland: The Poetics of Absence in Shmuel Gordon ’s Travelogue
- Moritz Goldsteins ›Deutsch-jüdischer Parnaß‹: Politische Kampfschrift und unpolitisches Bekenntnis
- Gertrud und Margarete Zuelzer
