Guesnet, F;
(2014)
'Languishing from a distance': Louis Meyer and the demise of the German Jewish ideal.
In:
Jews in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1918 (Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 27).
(117 - 151).
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization: Oxford, Portland, Oregon.
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Abstract
Louis Meyer (1796-1869), a Polish-Jewish merchant living in the middle-sized Polish provincial town of Wloclawek, authored a broad range of literary works in the German language. A representative of a moderate reform of Jewish religious traditions, he admired German, and more specifically, Prussian enlightened culture. His writings, a rare repository of thoughts and observations concerning Polish-Jewish culture in the 19th century, reveal a growing concern with the loss of humanist attitudes in Germany.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | 'Languishing from a distance': Louis Meyer and the demise of the German Jewish ideal |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-906764-21-0 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Keywords: | Louis Meyer (1796-1869), Jews, Poland, German literature, 19th century, Prussia, Wloclawek |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1457381 |
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