Jews in business and their representation in German literature, 1827-1934

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Get this from a library. Jews in business and their representation in German literature, [John Ward]. Having spent many years in Italy, he returned to Ireland and to German studies in and was awarded a First Class Honours M.A.

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This book gives an account of the literary representation of Jews as businessmen from the early nineteenth century to the onset of the Third Reich. «Back to Jews in Business and their Representation in German Literature Find Jews in Business and their Representation in German Literature near you.

Search Name. Drawing on Passion plays, hagiographical narratives and didactic literature, this monograph reveals a hitherto largely unacknowledged diversity in medieval German representations of Jews.

In many of the best-attested texts from the late medieval and early modern periods, Jews appear in German literature as sympathetic, even morally exemplary : John D.

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During the years when the United States was emerging as a nation, Jews were portrayed as bankers who served as negotiators between the Barbary piracy and Americans. The German-Jewish Economic Elite ( – ) 1. The 1827-1934 book of capitalism: Sombart versus Weber 2. Religious ideas refers to the original German book, Weber () to the English translation.

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The effect on Heine was rather to divert his attention from Jewish matters to German literature, and from to he produced a series of poems and sketches of travel which practically placed him at the head of German literature, culminating as they did in the "Buch der Lieder," one of the most exquisite volumes of lyric verse produced by.

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