,,Heim nach Dameschek". Jerusalem als Ursprung und Verschiebung in der deutsch-jüdischen Literatur vor 1948
,,Heim nach Dameschek. Jerusalem als Ursprung und Verschiebung in der deutsch-jüdischen Literatur vor 1948

Author: Leuenberger, Stefanie

Source: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, Volume 58, Number 3, 2006 , pp. 195-215(21)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

Examining the depiction of Jerusalem in German-Jewish literature between 1848 and 1948, this essay explores the occupation of real places by the imagination. The work with the old myths as well as the invention of new ones about Jerusalem expressed the negotiation of cultural identity and the German-Jewish situation in an era that saw the far-reaching modernization of Judaism. In the tension between the force of descent and the horizon of self-invention, some authors created the space for the ,,invention of a tradition" in modernity.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007306777834528

Publication date: 2006-06-01