Rebirth of a Culture : : Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria today /

Rebirth of a Culture : : Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria today / / ed. by Hillary Hope Herzog, Benjamin Lapp, Todd Herzog.

After 1945, Jewish writing in German was almost unimaginable—and then only in reference to the Shoah. Only in the 1980s, after a period of mourning, silence, and processing of the trauma, did a new Jewish literature evolve in Germany and Austria. This volume focuses on the re-emergence of a lively J...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bodek, Richard,
Brandt, Bettina,
Bruce, Iris,
Dischereit, Esther,
Dollinger, Roland,
Fachinger, Petra,
Gelbin, Cathy S.,
Gerber, Margy,
Herzog, Hillary Hope,
Herzog, Todd,
Lander, Jeannette,
Lapp, Benjamin,
Lorenz, Dagmar C. G.,
Rabinovici, Doron,
HerausgeberIn:
Herzog, Hillary Hope,
Herzog, Todd,
Lapp, Benjamin,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (198 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I German-Jewish Writing and Culture Today
  • 1 The Monster Returns: Golem Figures in the Writings of Benjamin Stein, Esther Dischereit, and Doron Rabinovici
  • 2 Hybridity, Intermarriage, and the (Negative) German-Jewish Symbiosis
  • 3 A Political Tevye? Yiddish Literature and the Novels of Stefan Heym
  • 4 Anti-Semitism because of Auschwitz: An Introduction to the Works of Henryk M. Broder
  • Part II The Case of Austria
  • 5 “What once was, will always be possible” The Echoes of History in Robert Menasse’s Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle
  • 6 The Global and the Local in Ruth Beckermann’s Films and Writings
  • Part III Transatlantic Relationships
  • 7 The Holocaust Survivor as Germanist: Marcel Reich-Ranicki and Ruth Kluger
  • 8 Transatlantic Solitudes: Canadian-Jewish and German-Jewish Writers in Dialogue with Kafka
  • 9 A German-Jewish-American Dialogue? Literary Encounters between German Jews and Americans in the 1990s
  • Part IV Jewish Writers in Germany and Austria
  • 10 “Attempts to Read the World” An Interview with Writer Barbara Honigmann
  • 11 Behind the Tränenpalast
  • 12 Germans Are Least Willing to Forgive Those Who Forgive Them: A Case Study of Myself
  • 13 Mischmasch or Mélange
  • Contributors
  • Index

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