Die Nietzsche-Rezeption in der deutsch-jüdischen Presse von 1892 bis 1918

Abstract

Abstract The article analyses Nietzsche’s reception in the German-Jewish press from 1892 to 1918 on the basis of the archives of Richard Krummel. Several narratives can be identified, which, divided into three thematic fields – Nietzsche’s biography, “the Jews”, “the Jewry” – run through the German-Jewish Nietzsche reception and are discussed in the following way: after general remarks on the reception, the quoted aphorisms are analyzed. The treatment of Nietzsche’s biography in the German-Jewish press and Nietzsche’s view on the “racial superiority” of “the Jews” are examined. Nietzsche’s distinction between ancient and modern Judaism, his slave morality theorem and the oppositions between Judea and Athens / Rome are also discussed.