The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century / / ed. by Mark H. Gelber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Braese, Stephan,; Detering, Heinrich,; Gelber, Mark H.,; Gilman, Sander L.,; Heidelberger-Leonard, Irène,; Offenberg, Ulrike,; Reynolds, Daniel P.,; Schwarcz, Vera,; Tempian, Monica,
• HerausgeberIn: Gelber, Mark H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 190 p.)

Ruth Klüger (1931 – 2020) passed away on October 5, 2020 in the U.S. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt, she survived Auschwitz and the Shoah together with her mother. After living in Germany for a short time after the War, she immigrated to New York. She was educated in the U.S. and rece...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction – The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century
• Poetry and Naming in Ruth Klüger’s Works and Life
• Spannung: Remarks on a Stylistic Principle in Ruth Klüger’s Writing
• Speaking with Germans: Ruth Klüger and the “Restitution of Speech between Germans and Jews”
• Writing Auschwitz: Jean Améry, Imre Kertész, and Ruth Klüger
• “. . . but the dead set us certain tasks, don’t they?” Ruth Klüger and the Jewish Tradition on Women Saying Kaddish
• Ruth Klüger, Judaism, and Zionism: An American Perspective
• “Ver zenen mir?” Children’s Voices in the Poetry of the Shoah
• “Looking into a Mirror Instead of Reality.” Ruth Klüger and the Problem of Holocaust Tourism
• Threads Yet to Be Spun: A China Angle on Memory and Ghosts in the Poetry of Ruth Klüger
• Notes on Contributors
• Index