Writer on the Run : : German-Jewish Identity and the Experience of Exile in the Life and Work of Henry William Katz / / Ena Pedersen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Pedersen, Ena,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2014]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Conditio Judaica : Studien und Quellen zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte , 33
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (197 p.)

This is the first academic treatment of the life and work of Henry William Katz (1906-1992) who has been forgotten by scholars and critics for fifty years although his first novel won him the Heinrich-Heine-Prize in exile in 1937. From a combined literary, historical, biographical and sociological p...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter I. Henry William Katz: A Tour Through the Twentieth Century
• Chapter II. Katz’s Journalism: Spokesman of the Proletariat
• Chapter III. Die Fischmanns: >Man verfolgt nicht nur die Juden aus Strody<
• Chapter IV. Schloßgasse 21: German or Jew? The Question of Identity
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index