Leipzig: G. Kiepenheuer. Edited by Hans Stern (
1987)
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Abstract
A collection of essays by Lessing, the German-Jewish journalist and social critic who was murdered by the Nazis in 1933. In two of his last essays, written in 1933 - "Gnade dem Maultier" (pp. 358-363) and "Vermächtnis an Deutschland" (pp. 367-372) - he asserts that German Jews are true Germans and, in contrast to the Nazis, faithful representatives of German culture, and he condemns the servile acceptance of antisemitic restrictions by many German Jews.