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This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary
orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises
research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source
texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in
particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries. The
closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature
and culture is an integral part of its historical development.
Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th
century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews,
and Jewish authors started writing in German, rather than Yiddish
or Hebrew, even when they were articulating Jewish themes. This
process is directly connected an historical change in mentality and
social factors which led to a gradual opening towards a non-Jewish
environment, which in its turn was becoming more open. In the
Enlightenment, German society becomes the standard of reference -
initially for an intellectual elite. Against this background, the
term German-Jewish literature refers to the literary work of Jewish
authors writing in German to the extent that explicit or implicit
Jewish themes, motifs, modes of thought or models can be identified
in them. From the beginning of the 19th century at the latest,
however, the image of Jews in the work of non-Jewish writers,
determined mainly by anti-Semitism, becomes a factor in
German-Jewish literature. There is a tension between Jewish
writers' authentic reference to Jewish traditions or existence and
the anti-Semitic marking and discrimination against everything
Jewish which determines the overall development of the history of
German-Jewish literature and culture. This series provides an
appropriate forum for research into the whole problematic area.
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