... engaging reading of the Enlightenment ... as a study of representations of Jewish identities, Robertson's work offers a well-versed survey and provides a comprehensive view of the topic that leaves only the field of postwar German-Jewish literature untouched.

• Introduction ; Enlightenment; German Jewry before Emancipation; How the Enlightenment saw the Jews; Lessing and Toleration; Emancipation: Dohm versus Humboldt; Moses Mendelssohn and the Rational Jew; Mendelssohns Legacy ; Liberalism; Jews and Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century; Schnitzler: Liberalism and Irony; The European Humanism of Stefan Zweig; Freud: Science versus Religion ; Antisemitism; Varieties of Antisemitism; Literary Images of the Jew ; Assimilation; The Meaning of Assimilation; Self-Hatred; Hyperacculturation ; Dissimilation; The Jewish Renaissance; The Eastern Jews; The Jew as Oriental ; Zionism ; Abbreviations ; Select Bibliography

... engaging reading of the Enlightenment ... as a study of representations of Jewish identities, Robertson's work offers a well-versed survey and provides a comprehensive view of the topic that leaves only the field of postwar German-Jewish literature untouched.

• Introduction ; Enlightenment; German Jewry before Emancipation; How the Enlightenment saw the Jews; Lessing and Toleration; Emancipation: Dohm versus Humboldt; Moses Mendelssohn and the Rational Jew; Mendelssohns Legacy ; Liberalism; Jews and Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century; Schnitzler: Liberalism and Irony; The European Humanism of Stefan Zweig; Freud: Science versus Religion ; Antisemitism; Varieties of Antisemitism; Literary Images of the Jew ; Assimilation; The Meaning of Assimilation; Self-Hatred; Hyperacculturation ; Dissimilation; The Jewish Renaissance; The Eastern Jews; The Jew as Oriental ; Zionism ; Abbreviations ; Select Bibliography