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Journal Article
Redemption through Sin: Benjamin Stein's Das Alphabet des Rabbi Löw and the Heretical Dynamism of Contemporary German Jewish Literature and Identity
2021
Overview
This article examines Benjamin Stein's
Das Alphabet des Rabbi Löw
(2014; first published as
Das Alphabet des Juda Liva
in 1995) as an intervention in current debates about the emerging pluralism of German Jewish identity. It is argued that esoteric allusions to Jewish mysticism symbolically repair the ruptures in Jewish genealogies and that intertextual references to German (Jewish) literary traditions hint specifically at a revival of German Jewish identity. Above all, however, allusions to the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi suggest the heretical dynamism of this identity and position Juda Liva/Rabbi Löw at the centre of contemporary German Jewish literature.
Publisher
Modern Humanities Research Association
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