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

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

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (298 p.)
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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

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