The German-Jewish poet embraced “the Great Aristophanes of Heaven.”
Heinrich Heine’s prediction of Nazism remains relevant today.
Wit, exile, Jew, convert, genius.
A German nationalist riot and a Muslim character in a play by Heinrich Heine.
A new book traces the history of conversion from Judaism.
A stale New Yorker quiz prompts stale accusations of anti-Semitism. More interesting is the trope of the canine Jew.
In a new edition, Jonathan Franzen does little to explain the influence of the Austrian Jewish attack journalist but much to broadcast his own. . .