Gabriel Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 5936475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oberlin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Facing East
The oriental imaginary of Heinrich Heine’s cycle, Hebräische Melodien (1851), borrows and diverges from European orientalism and its German Jewish counterpart, sephardism. In departing from these traditions, Heine launches a critique of both discourses and highlights their shared assertion of Western superiority. His recreation of the Sephardic past attacks the ideologies perpetuated by literary and historiographical treatments of the Orient. Dir…
Feuchtwanger's Jud Süß and the Ambiguities of Jewish Political Power
This reading reassesses Feuchtwanger's novel Jud Süß (1925) as historical fiction, focusing on the temporality of the events portrayed, rather than the era in which the author wrote. An examination of the motif of betrayal, intrinsic to the historical setting's characterization, lends insight into the novel's portrayal of Jewish political power as deeply ambivalent. Whereas previous scholarship has uncritically received Feuchtwanger's justificati…
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Feuchtwanger's Jud Süß and the Ambiguities of Jewish Political Power
This reading reassesses Feuchtwanger's novel Jud Süß (1925) as historical fiction, focusing on the temporality of the events portrayed, rather than the era in which the author wrote. An examination of the motif of betrayal, intrinsic to the historical setting's characterization, lends insight into the novel's portrayal of Jewish political power as deeply ambivalent. Whereas previous scholarship has uncritically received Feuchtwanger's justificati…
Facing East
The oriental imaginary of Heinrich Heine’s cycle, Hebräische Melodien (1851), borrows and diverges from European orientalism and its German Jewish counterpart, sephardism. In departing from these traditions, Heine launches a critique of both discourses and highlights their shared assertion of Western superiority. His recreation of the Sephardic past attacks the ideologies perpetuated by literary and historiographical treatments of the Orient. Dir…
Art (2 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Judaism (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Antisemitism (1 work)