Starting out from Goethe`s ambivalent relationship to Jews and Judaism, this volume addresses the varied reception of Goethe`s person and works in the context of German-Jewish cultural history. For the first time, Goethe`s personal relationship to Jewish contemporaries and their relationship to him are correlated with the reception of his work by Jewish scholars and readers. The anti-Semitic appropriation of Goethe is additionally discussed.

This book is included in DOAB.