Heine resolved assimilation tension by embracing his own hypocrisy

Evidence

At times, he shared the romanticist sentiment that valued authenticity. Heine looked for it in his Jewish background. He romanticised about Jewish history in some of his writings, such as the Rabbi of Bacherach. He also took part in the Verein für Wissenschaft des Judenthums, an organisation whose members tried to take pride in their Jewish origin in a non-religious way by establishing a socalled science of Judaism. And he even tried to prove the genuineness of his convictions by challenging his enemies to duels, and actually fought them quite regularly. But in the end, he also embraced his own hypocrisy, and decided to be authentic in his inauthenticity. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1674