The Word Unheard: Legacies of Anti-Semitism in German Literature and Culture

by Martha B. Helfer

The publication of Martha B. Helfer's The Word Unheard: Legacies of Anti-Semitism in German Literature and Culture marks a stunningly original new direction in the interpretation of canonical works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature.

Between 1749 and 1850--the formative years of the so-called Jewish Question in Germany--the emancipation debates over granting full civil and political rights to Jews provided the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810127946
• ISBN13: 9780810127944
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"