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fogs-161	Ferstenberg, Helen	German-Jewish Creative Identity in the Age of Lessing and Beyond: Berthold Auerbach's Dichter und Kaufmann	1998	6	.pdf	application/pdf	4396	185	60	As Lothar Kahn and Donald Hook show, Auerbach was one of a group of writers concerned with showing that Jewish writers are indeed de~ng ~f the Gennan label and to dissociate themselves from [Hcine), while looking upon him as a d ire threat to their continued well-being in Germany (53). Lessing's praise of Jewish wit turns out to be a double­ edged sword, since he adds that wit is rather insubstantial: Der \'(liLZ ist, wic das Salz, oieht sattigc:ode Speise, aber es wurZI die Nahrung und bewahn vor FaulniB (12: 131).	cache/fogs-161.pdf	txt/fogs-161.txt