Karl Jakob Wasserman (1873-1934) was a German novelist who felt closed out from the general German society because of his Jewish identity. This tension between being a German and a Jew is the theme of his classic "My life as German and a Jew" (1921). [Scharfstein S: [http://books.google.com/books?id=uFuBCOzObf0C&pg=PA123 "Jewish History and You"] .
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Wasserman, Jakob — (1873–1933) German novelist. Wasserman strove for a fusion of German and Jewish culture and was opposed to a separate Jewish identity, but changed his views when the Nazis burnt his books. Among his well known novels were Caspar Hauser (1928;… … Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament
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