GOLDSTEIN, MORITZ
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GOLDSTEIN, MORITZ (1880–1977), writer and Zionist; advanced the argument
that Germany's Jews* had no home in Europe. After studying German
language and literature during 1900–1906, he became editor of the Goldene
Klassiker-Bibliothek (Library of golden classics). In 1912 he published an article
entitled ‘‘Deutsch-Ju¨discher Parnass'' (‘‘German-Jewish Parnassus''); the piece
caused a minor furor. He argued that the Jews were directing German culture,
yet had neither the capacity nor the right to do so. He noted that Berlin's*
newspapers* were a Jewish monopoly, that its theater* world was directed by
Jews, that Germany's musical life was unthinkable without Jews, and that the
study of German literature was in Jewish hands. Despite their intellectual and
emotional efforts, Germany's Jews, he insisted, remained a rootless people.
Goldstein served on the Western Front during 1915–1918. When the Republic
encouraged even fuller involvement by Jews in German society, he chose not
to emigrate to Palestine. In 1919 he became literary editor of Vossische Zeitung
and then joined Inquit in 1928 as court reporter. Dismissed in 1933 from Vossische
Zeitung, he emigrated to Italy. Until 1936 he directed Florence's Landschulheim
for German students and thereafter ran a boarding school with his
wife in Viargio. He was briefly imprisoned by Mussolini in 1938, and the Italians
expelled him in 1939. He passed through France to England and finally
emigrated to the United States in 1947.
Goldstein's thesis was, of course, exaggerated. But he was not the only Jew
who believed that the Jewish people had acquired too much influence in Germany.
For example, Franz Kafka claimed that it was impossible to write in
German since use of the language was the ‘‘overt or covert . . . usurpation of an
alien property.''
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- THÉORIE GÉHÉRALE DE LA CONNAISSANCE, Moritz Schlick
- STRUCTURE DE L'ORGANISME (La). de Kurt Goldstein
- ANTOINE REISER (résumé & analyse) de Charles Philippe Moritz
- ESPRIT DU TEMPS (L') de Ernst Moritz Arndt (résumé)
- LEÇONS SUR L’HISTOIRE DES MATHÉMATIQUES Moritz Cantor (résumé)