Publication details
„Es hat mich immer zur Totalität gedrängt“. Religiöses bei Jakob Julius David
| Title in English | "I was always attracted to totality". Religious Aspects in J.J. Davids Oeuvre |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Brünner Hefte zu Deutsch als Fremdsprache |
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| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | Jakob Julius David; German Literature from Moravia; Wiener Moderne; Religiousness; Judaism; Christianity |
| Description | As far as the religious attitude of the German-Moravian writer Jakob Julius David (1859-1906) is concerned, the following three points are widely known among experts: his origin as a Moravian Jew, his conversion to Catholicism, and his preference for humanist ethics rather than religious. In spite of this fact, there are many religious motifs to be found in his oeuvre. Th e paper tries to provide evidence of David’s image of Christianity as rather affirmative and intuitive, whereas his Jewish characters are rather burdened by their faith. |