Meditations on Jewish creative identity : representations of the Jewish artist in the works of German-Jewish writers from Heine to Feuchtwanger

Ferstenberg (PhD, German literature, Yale U., 2002) analyzes issues relating to the relative lack of portrayals of Jewish writers in German-Jewish fiction given their disproportionate role in Germanic literary life prior to the Holocaust.

Counter to studies focusing on Jewish self-hatred or blind allegiance to the Fatherland, she explores coming to