The Image of the Jew as Depicted in "Soll Und Haben" by Gustav Freytag and in "Der Hungerpastor" by Wilhelm Raabe
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Authors
Keel, William Donald
Issue Date
1969
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The twentieth century has had the misfortune to be the
witness of one of the cruelest acts which man has committed
against himself. The systematic extermination of the Jewish
population of Europe, which fortunately did not achieve final
success, is even as a mere idea too horrible to be imagined
by human beings. Yet before the eyes of mankind National-Socialist
Germany planned and executed this project during
the latter stages of the Second World War. However, the
extermination of the Jews was not an event in itself, but
the culmination of years of anti-Semitic propaganda and
persecution of the Jewish population in Germany. The German
populace had been conditioned, had been educated to accept
this final solution to the "Jewish problem" through the
continued efforts of the National-Socialist Government and
Propaganda Ministry to demonstrate to the public the evil,
the sickness that the Jew represented in the German nation.
For the National-Socialists to have been successful, they had
to appeal to underlying anti-Semitic tendencies in the German
people. The immediate sources of these tendencies are found
in the traditional anti-Jewish attitudes of the Christian
Church and in the programmatic anti-Semitic campaigns which
began in the 1870's and 1880's in Austria and Germany and
continued until the rise of Adolf Hitler. Another, perhaps
subtler, aspect of this problem was the development in the national mind of a stereotype of the typical Jew. It was the development of a conditioned negative response on the part of the average German burgher to the word Jude. From
this standpoint, I wish to examine the role of the German
novel of the nineteenth century in the development of the
stereotyped Jew.
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iii, 73 p.
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