Lion Feuchtwanger, Jud Süss [The Jew Suss]

Ian Wallace (University of Bath)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.06: French Writing and Culture: Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1925

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Historical
Novel
Novella

Cultural Identities

Jewish European

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To date, Lion Feuchtwanger’s best-selling historical novel

Jud Süss

[

Power

] has been translated into over twenty foreign languages and sold in more than three million copies, yet it had originally taken him two years to find a publisher before the Drei Masken Verlag finally brought out the novel in Munich in 1925. This was rapidly followed by an American edition, published as

Power

by Viking Press in New York in 1926, and a British edition, published as

Jew Süss. A Historical Romance

by Martin Secker in London, also in 1926. The runaway success of the translation by Willa and Edwin Muir in both the USA and Britain (Secker brought out 24 editions within a year) led to higher sales in Germany too.

The enduring fascination with the story of Josef Süss Oppenheimer, the Jewish financier

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Citation: Wallace, Ian. "Jud Süss". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 August 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=20466, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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