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"The Book; yes, their Book. They had no state, holding them together, no country, no soil, no king, no form of life in common. If, in spite of this, they were one, more one than all the other peoples of the world, it was the Book that sweated them into unity. Brown, white, black, yellow Jews, large and small, splendid and in rags, godless and pious, they might crouch and dream all their lives in a quiet room, or fare splendidly in a radiant, golden whirlwind over the earth, but sunk deep in all of them was the lesson of the Book. Manifold is the world, but it is vain and fleeting as wind; but one and only is the God of Israel, the everlasting, the infinite, the Jehovah." -Jud Süss, 1925. When Feuchtwanger’s two best known novels “Jew Süss” (“Power”) and “Ugly Duchess” were first translated into English in the 1920s, they caused a tremendous sensation in England and then in America. The critics all hailed Feuchtwanger as the master of the historical novel—the peer of Dumas and Scott but written with the psychology of our own day. “Jew Süss,” set in the 18th century Germany (at the time consisting of numerous fragmented independent states), deals with an identity crisis: in order to gain social power, the novel's protagonist attempts to forsake his Jewish heritage and becomes assimilated into the mainstream of German culture. More than that, Süss finds himself being in the position of potential kingmaker. Brilliant, attractive and with an insatiable lust for power, he practically ruled the Duke and his court, pandering to the vices of dissolute nobility, mounting through his intrigues to dizzying heights of power. Süss’s only vulnerable spot, however, is his precious, exquisite, gentle daughter, Naomi. When her beauty became exposed to the beastliness of the Duke, tragedy came swiftly after.
- Sales Rank: #4503040 in Books
- Published on: 2013-10-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .98" w x 5.25" l, .98 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 432 pages
About the Author
The celebrated German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958) was an incomparable master of the historical novel, applying his distinctive technique of projecting critical contemporary themes onto exceptional individuals and complex historical scenery from times long gone. Using a thorough knowledge of historical detail and playing the role of an enlightened philosopher with a highly idiosyncratic literary style, he engaged both ancient Jewish history and the dilemmas of Jewish existence in his key writings. Throughout his career, Feuchtwanger was drawn to a central theme of Jewishness, and his best work presents the enigma of the Jew and treats the quandary of being Jewish in a non-Jewish world. He depicts the predicament of the "modern" Jew, of whatever historical period, in achieving a synthesis of his or her particular relationship to the Jewish people and a universal relationship to all humanity. Beginning in 1925 with his instantly famous novel "Jew Süss" and followed by his "Josephus" trilogy-"Josephus" ("The Judean War"), 1932; "The Jew of Rome," 1935; and "Josephus and the Emperor" ("The Emperor and His Jew"), 1942-Feuchtwanger deals with the theme of nationalism versus cosmopolitanism, in the trilogy specifically via the life of Josephus Flavius, the renowned yet controversial Jewish historian of the first century. In these inimitable and haunting works, as also in his life, Josephus witnesses firsthand the tragic fall of Judea and the Jerusalem Temple, and then spends his life defending the Jewish cause on the world's greatest stage at the time, Rome. Feuchtwanger also wrote fascinating historical novels on Goya the artist, Benjamin Franklin in France ("Arms for America"), and Rousseau the philosopher. Toward his life's end in California, Feuchtwanger took up the theme of Jewishness again in his novel "Raquel, the Jewess of Toledo" (all available from MaKoM---see MaKoM Publications titles).
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
Superb historical novel of Medieval Europe and the Jews.
By A Customer
Feuchtwanger is probably the best historical novelist in the world - truly superb in erudition and majestic in his literary style. While this German Jewish writer is famous for his Josephus trilogy detailing the scenes of the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, he has also written unequaled novels on Goya the artist, J.J.Rousseau the philosopher, and last but not least, on Benjamin Franklin. Jew Suss is about medieval Europe and the Jewish presence there, sometimes a very visible presense, sometimes kabbalistically hidden. A tour-de-force of the highest calibre.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
An uncomfortable book
By Ralph Blumenau
It is somewhat surprising that this novel, which became a best-seller soon after it was first published in 1925, should have been written by a self-consciously Jewish writer. Though its purpose was to expose and condemn antisemitism, it is easy to see that how the Nazis could mine it for the infamous antisemitic film under that title in 1940. True, that film was a distortion of the novel, but the character and appearance of Süss and of other Jews in the book is quite distasteful enough. It is, however, also true that all the non-Jews are distasteful also: there is in fact hardly an attractive character in the book.
Josef Süss-Oppenheimer was an ambitious Jewish financier, who from 1733 until 1737 not only ran the personal and public finances of Charles Alexander, the Duke of Württemberg, but also supported the Duke's Catholic autocracy against the Protestant Estates and the Protestant Constitution of Württemberg. He therefore made many enemies among the establishment, was also detested by the people whose financial burdens he greatly increased. He himself discarded traditional Jewish dress and maintained the lavish life-style of the aristocracy, which further exposed him to hatred. That he was a Jew, at a time before Jewish emancipation, of course added fuel to the fire. On the day that Charles Alexander died, Süss-Oppenheimer was arrested and charged with constitutional and financial improprieties. He was hanged in 1738 and his remains were publicly exhibited in an iron cage. It is generally believed that this was a judicial murder, to which the vicious and visceral antisemitism of the time contributed.
Feuchtwanger paints the political and social history of time in great and impressive detail (except that there is not a single date in the book); but he really lets himself go in unappealing and stereotypical details, repeated over and over again in this very long novel: the more observant Jews wear greasy kaftans and have bloodless faces; Süss is portrayed as arrogant and at the same time obsequious (allowing himself to be insulted over and over again by the coarse Duke and his courtiers), indifferent to the impression he knows he creates and to the warnings of his more cautious co-religionists, subtle and scheming and of course ever obsessed with profit and power.
Then, three-fifth of the way through the book, Süss discovers that, although he had been brought up as a Jew since childhood, he was in fact the illegitimate son of a German nobleman, a Field Marshal no less. There is no documentary proof of this, though the legend circulated in Süss' own lifetime. Feuchtwanger presents it as a fact. The one redeeming feature in this otherwise odious figure was that he had always proudly refused to convert: indeed, he had savoured his power the more because he had held it as a Jew; and he now, equally proudly, refused to make use of his new knowledge and to claim Christian and aristocratic descent.
Perhaps these stereotypes corresponded to what Süss and the other characters were really like, and perhaps not: some modern researchers see Süss as a creative but maligned reformer and modernizer of an antiquated medieval economic system. In any case Feuchtwanger now goes into pure invention. He has given Süss a beloved and beautiful young daughter, whom the father had hidden in a house deep in a forest, to keep her away from the corruptions of court life. An enemy of Süss' had discovered this, and led the lascivious Duke to that place. Rather than yield to the Duke, the girl threw herself to her death from the roof of the house. Süss' revenge is to exploit the Duke's guilt feelings: he becomes more arrogant and oppressive than ever and (unlikely in fact but powerfully effective as fiction) he now quite openly cheats the Duke, who is resentful but dependent. And then he convinces the Duke to plan a coup d'état against the Constitution - and betrays the plot to the Duke's enemies! He knows full well that if, as a result, the Duke falls, so will he. When the Duke hears that the plot has failed, he has a stroke and dies - not before hearing Süss hissing his triumphant vengeance into his ears - and then Süss suggests to the plotters that they should arrest him - which they promptly do: he will be doubly a scapegoat. (In fact, Süss was arrested on the day of the Duke's death, but not under those circumstances.)
The inquisition into Süss' alleged crimes ran into difficulties: he was not a native of Württemberg and had merely given advice: the real criminals were those who had executed it and had committed high treason. He had had intercourse with gentile women, forbidden not only to Jews but also to gentiles under the law: but many high-born families would be disgraced, and this charge was eventually dropped. But the verdict was not in doubt; the mob of course demanded it, too; and he was sentenced to be hanged. There was a slight chance that his life might have been spared if he converted to Christianity: he spurned it. Feuchtwanger's last fancy is that the corpse was taken from the gallows, another substituted, and that Süss was given a Jewish funeral. According to him, it was the substitute that remained exhibited for the next six years.
Though somewhat long and with descriptions frequently repeated, this is a powerful book. But I do not like historical novels which distort known facts. And for all its condemnation of antisemitism, I am disturbed by the relish with which the disagreeable stereotypes of Jews are narrated in this novel. They swamp, to my mind, the pathos of the Jewish people and Süss' stoical and tragic end.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Jew Suss
By A Customer
A Russian friend told me to buy this book..he said it was extremely popular about young Russian Jews... I found it to be a powerfully healing book for people who are in turmoil and looking for some purpose in the grand scheme of things..the book in parts is very biting,very disturbing, and at times hysterically funny..it is timeless as its characters and their exaggerated flaws applied to modern leaders..and to Jews who are striving to be non Jews..For Jews who have lost touch with their roots through their families' attempts at assimilation but who feel their Jewish soul..this book might help lessen their pain and find their purpose in living.. Bobby
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