Friedrich Gundolf and Jewish Conservative Bohemianism in the Weimar Republic

Friedrich Gundolf (1880–1931), the influential Weimar literary scholar and Heidelberg professor, was in many ways a classic Jewish Wagnerian.¹ The notion of “Jewish Wagnerianism,” which derives from the Jewish studies scholar Daniel Boyarin, refers to those Jewish men in the late nineteenth and earl...

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Published in	Jewish Masculinities p. 186
Main Author	ANN GOLDBERG
Format	Book Chapter
Language	English
Published	Indiana University Press 18.07.2012
Subjects	Ambivalence Anthropology Antisemitism Arts Behavioral sciences Cognitive psychology Conservatism Cultural identity Emotion Emotional states Ethnic groups Ethnology Ethnoreligious groups Feminism Gender identity Gender studies Group identity Jewish identity Jewish peoples Literary genres Literature Masculinity Personality psychology Poetry Political ideologies Political philosophy Political science Prejudices Psychological attitudes Psychology Religious poetry Social psychology Social sciences
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Summary:	Friedrich Gundolf (1880–1931), the influential Weimar literary scholar and Heidelberg professor, was in many ways a classic Jewish Wagnerian.¹ The notion of “Jewish Wagnerianism,” which derives from the Jewish studies scholar Daniel Boyarin, refers to those Jewish men in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who fled the effeminate, queer, hysterical Jew of fin-de-siècle anti-Semitic discourse by embracing an aggressive masculinism of Western culture.² Coming of age at the turn of the twentieth century, Gundolf fled his Jewishness in the most literal sense, choosing as his mentor the neo-Romantic poet-prophet Stefan George (1868–1933). The gentile George gave
ISBN:	0253002133 9780253002136