Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction<br>The Hoffaktor : a necessary evil?<br>Citizens and conmen<br>Heimatkunst and Hauptstadt : the portrayal of urban and rural Jewish business people in the literature of the late nineteenth century<br>The challenge of the Jewish commercial spirit in the early writing of Heinrich Mann<br>Responses to anti-Semitism by Jewish and non-Jewish authors<br>Conclusion.