Meir Aron Goldschmidt , Meir Aaron Goldschmidt ( Dat. Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt ; October 26, 1819 , Wordborg - August 15, 1887 , Copenhagen ) - Danish fiction writer and playwright and liberal journalist , writer of Danish Jewry.
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Creativity
- 2.1 The novel "Jew"
- 3 Translations
- 4 Further reading
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Biography
Meir Aron Goldschmidt was born into a Jewish family, the son of a merchant. Due to his hostile attitude towards him as a Jew, he left his studies at the University of Copenhagen . He published and edited opposition social satirical magazines Korsar (Korsar, 1840 - 1846 ), Nord og Sud ( 1847 - 1859 ) in Copenhagen . [5] Several cartoons on Kierkegaard were published in Korsar Goldschmidt was personally acquainted. Goldschmidt devoted his meetings with Kierkegaard to his memoirs, “Life — Memoirs and Results” (1876). Goldschmidt subsequently moved away from his liberal position .
Creativity
The author of a number of novels , short stories and short stories is the novel “Jew” ( En Jøde , 1845 ), “Without Homeland” ( Hjemløs , 1853 - 1857 ), “Heir” ( 1865 ), “Raven” ( 1867 ), “Rabbi Eliezer” ( 1869 ), “Rabbis and Knights” ( 1869 ), “Avromce Notergal” ( 1871 ). The listed works are devoted to Jewish subjects and were especially popular; they defended the idea of the emancipation of the Jews.
The author of the collections “Small Stories” ( 1868 - 1869 ) and “Stories and Sketches” (t. 1-3, 1863 - 1865 ), plays “In Another World” ( 1869 ) and “The Youth of Swedenborg” ( 1862 ).
Roman Jew
Goldschmidt’s most significant work of art is the Jew. It develops the problem of the assimilation of the Jewish intelligentsia , which suffers at every step of humiliation from the "Christian" society; the latter in every possible way impedes the merging of the Jewish intelligentsia with the environment, sharply emphasizing the national differences caused by the “fatal” origin and traditional upbringing.
Thus, the Jewish intellectual finds himself in a tragic impasse: he seeks to go beyond the national, but he is made to feel like a Jew , while he himself has consciously already joined the mainstream culture.
This problem is interpreted in the novel exclusively from a psychological point of view: the center of gravity for Goldschmit is not in the complex complex social relations of classes of different nationalities, but in the racial and religious difference of these nationalities from each other, which has become a fetish among the warring parties.
The novel is devoid of any social setting; in it, Goldschmidt is only an exponent of the ideology of the Jewish intelligentsia, which is striving for assimilation.
Translations
The novel "Jew" was translated into Hebrew , Yiddish , Russian (translation by M. P. Blagoveshchenskaya, Guise, P., 1919 ) and other languages.
His "Tales of Love" (M., 1889 ) were also translated into Russian .
Further reading
- The history of world literature in nine volumes. M., "Science". T. 6.P. 265.
- Seren Kierkegaard. A life. Philosophy. Christianity. . Comp. and per. English I. Bass. St. Petersburg: Dmitry Bulanin, 2004. S.68-71; 202-217. ISBN 5-86007-402-6
- Meir Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction by David Gantt Gurley, 2016, Syracuse University Press
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ Goldschmidt Meir Aron // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ Gansen P.G. , Gornfeld A.G. Goldschmidt, Meir // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Links
- Goldschmidt Meir Aron - article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia
- Meir Aaron Goldschmidt
The article is based on the materials of the Literary Encyclopedia of 1929-1939 .