Vienna Is Different : : Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present / / Hillary Hope Herzog.

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• VerfasserIn: Herzog, Hillary Hope,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)

Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and exclusion, feeling “unheimlich heimisch” (eerily at home) in Vienna.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Intro -- The Historical Continuity of the Viennese Jewish Experience -- Chapter 1. The Fin de Siècle -- The Jewish Immigrant Experience in Vienna -- The Jewish Confrontation with a New Political Climate -- Jewish Cultural Responses -- Arthur Schnitzler -- Adolf Dessauer -- Felix Salten -- Stefan Zweig -- Hugo von Hofmannsthal -- Karl Kraus -- Theodor Herzl -- Richard Beer-Hofmann -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Jewish Vienna Between the World Wars -- Jewish Identity and World War I -- A New Jewish Identity Crisis -- Rising Anti-Semitism -- The Beginning of the End -- Jews and the Anschluss -- Jewish Cultural Responses During the Interwar Years -- Arthur Schnitzler -- Felix Salten -- Stefan Zweig -- Joseph Roth -- Karl Kraus -- Hugo Bettauer -- Elias Canetti -- Veza Canetti -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Jews and the Second Republic -- Introduction -- The Immediate Postwar Situation -- The Second Republic -- Austrian Jews and the Second Republic -- Jewish Identity after 1945 -- Ilse Aichinger -- Friedrich Torberg -- Hilde Spiel -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Viennese Jews from Waldheim to Haider and Beyond -- Introduction -- The Waldheim Affair -- Jewish Writers and Vienna after Waldheim -- Contemporary Viennese Jewish Writing -- Ruth Beckermann -- Robert Schindel -- Doron Rabinovici -- Robert Menasse -- Eva Menasse -- Elfriede Jelinek -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index