Jewish pasts, German fictions : history, memory, and minority culture in Germany, 1824-1955 / Jonathan Skolnik.

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Introduction : Jewish cultural memory and the German historical novel -- Jewish history under the sign of secularization : Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza (1837) -- "Who learns history from Heine?" : Wissenschaft des Judentums and Heinrich Heine's Der Rabbi von Bacherach (1840) -- Minority culture in the age of the nation : Jewish historical fiction in nineteenth-century Germany -- German modernism and Jewish memory : Else Lasker-Schüler's Der Wunderrabbiner von Barcelona (1921) -- "Where books are burned" : Jewish memories of inquisition and expulsion in Nazi Germany and in exile -- Epilogue : post-Holocaust echoes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing. What did it imply for a minority to imagine its history in the majority language? Skolnik makes the case that the answer lies in the creation of a German-Jewish minority culture in which historical fiction.

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