HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories
HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories
Heinrich Heine 1841, was Heine used to illustrate an anti-Semitic thesis. In an article entitled Hebraistic, the claim was made that Jews had no turn for literature of any kind. In order to prove "the anti-literary and pro-old-clothes propensities of the Jews in all the countries of modern Europe," the author undertook to refute the common belief that, in Germany at any rate, Jewish intellect was able to shake off its ghetto mentality and its base bondage to money and apparently did succeed in forming a literary school of merit. Certainly, with such a "strongarmed Maccabee" as Heine to fight the battles of the Jews, it required courage to buckle on armor and to oppose Jewish pretensions to literary talent. But the author was not dismayed by the seeming difficulty of his task. He pointed out that unhappy beings like Heine and his collaborator Borne attained their celebrity in the world of letters by a total abnegation of the Jewish character in all aspects. They repudiated Judaism and were more bitter against the Old Testament than against the New. They propounded as their gospel the ultraradicalism of Count St. Simon, a Frenchman, and of Robert Owen, an Englishman. Their literature, though written by ex-Jews, was not Jewish literature, and they themselves could in no sense be re- [106]
The Wandering Jew garded as valid exceptions to the rule that the Jews were a non-literary people. Carlyle's outbursts against Heine were not uninfluenced by the former's strong anti-Semitic prejudices, which he never cared to conceal. When he accused the Jews of a lack of humor, he refused to make any exceptions, insisting that no Jewcreature was gifted with a sense of the ridiculous — "not even blackguard Heine." ^ A Jew never laughed a hearty out-bursting laugh and even Heine's so-called humor was "a storm, grim sort of humor." ^ Carlyle spoke of Heine as a slimy and greasy Jew, as a dirty and blaspheming Jew.^ Such expressions were unusual in Victorian England and more in accord with the German Romantic tradition to which Carlyle paid homage. The typical English reaction to Heine's Jewishness was nearer to that of Richard Monckton Milnes: calm, judicious, unaffected by love, unmarred by mahce. Heine's coarse satire directed against the land of his birth was explained by reference to his hereditary background and to the evil influences among which he grew up. His Jewish descent necessarily ahenated him from the national cause of Germany and gave him a vindictive gratification in its discomfiture. "He enjoyed the [107]
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garded as valid exceptions to the rule that the Jews<br />
were a non-literary people.<br />
Carlyle's outbursts against Heine were not uninfluenced<br />
by the former's strong anti-Semitic<br />
prejudices, which he never cared to conceal. When<br />
he accused the Jews of a lack of humor, he refused<br />
to make any exceptions, insisting that no Jewcreature<br />
was gifted with a sense of the ridiculous<br />
— "not even blackguard Heine." ^ A Jew never<br />
laughed a hearty out-bursting laugh and even<br />
Heine's so-called humor was "a storm, grim sort<br />
of humor." ^ Carlyle spoke of Heine as a slimy and<br />
greasy Jew, as a dirty and blaspheming Jew.^ Such<br />
expressions were unusual in Victorian England and<br />
more in accord with the German Romantic tradition<br />
to which Carlyle paid homage.<br />
The typical English reaction to Heine's Jewishness<br />
was nearer to that of Richard Monckton<br />
Milnes: calm, judicious, unaffected by love, unmarred<br />
by mahce. Heine's coarse satire directed<br />
against the land of his birth was explained by reference<br />
to his hereditary background and to the<br />
evil influences among which he grew up. His Jewish<br />
descent necessarily ahenated him from the national<br />
cause of Germany and gave him a vindictive<br />
gratification in its discomfiture. "He enjoyed the<br />
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