Was the Real Thomas Mann an Antisemite?

Download or read book Was the Real Thomas Mann an Antisemite? written by Alexander Raviv and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No, we certainly do not forget Thomas Mann's manifestations of friendship for Jews and Judaism, which we can find in Thomas Mann's "non-fictional writings" (in fact these were originally interviews, lectures. speeches, radio broadcasts). And yet, the Jewish characters in Thomas Mann's novels are there, in their inexorable negativity, a negativity cutting across everything: the different periods in Thomas Mann's writing career, the themes of the novels in which they appear, the changes in Thomas Mann's political convictions, the historical events of the 20th century.