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Rebirth of a Culture

Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria today
1. Aufl.

von: Hillary Hope Herzog, Todd Herzog, Benjamin Lapp
37,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	01.08.2008
ISBN/EAN:	9780857450289
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	198

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Titelbeschreibung

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 Jewish cultural scene in the German-speaking countries and the various cultural forms of expression that have developed around it. Topics include current debates such as the emergence of a post-Waldheim Jewish discourse in Austria and Jewish responses to German unification and the Gulf wars. Other significant themes addressed are the memorialization of the Holocaust in Berlin and Vienna, the uses of Kafka in contemporary German literature, and the German and American-Jewish dialogue as representative of both the history of exile and the globalization of postmodern civilization. The volume is enhanced by contributions from some of the most significant representatives of German-Jewish writing today such as Esther Dischereit, Barbara Honigmann, Jeanette Lander, and Doron Rabinovici. The result is a lively dialogue between European and North American scholars and writers that captures the complexity and dynamism of Jewish culture in Germany and Austria at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Dagmar Lorenz
 German-Jewish Writing and Culture Today
 Chapter 1. The Monster Returns: Golem Figures in the Writings of Benjamin Stein, Esther Dischereit, and Doron Rabinovici Cathy S. Gelbin
 Chapter 2. Hybridity, Intermarriage, and the (Negative) German-Jewish Symbiosis Petra Fachinger
 Chapter 3. A Political Tevye? Yiddish Literature and the Novels of Stefan Heym Richard Bodek
 Chapter 4. Anti-Semitism because of Auschwitz: An Introduction to the Works of Henryk M. Broder Roland Dollinger
 The Case of Austria
 Chapter 5. "What once was, will always be possible:" The Echoes of History in Robert Menasse’s Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle Margy Gerber
 Chapter 6. Austria’s Topography of Memory: Heldenplatz, Albertinaplatz, Judenplatz, and Beyond Eva Kuttenberg
 Chapter 7. The Global and the Local in Ruth Beckermann’s Films and Writings Hillary Hope Herzog
 Transatlantic Relationships
 Chapter 8. The Holocaust Survivor as Germanist: Ruth Kluger and Marcel Reich-Ranicki Benjamin Lapp
 Chapter 9. Transatlantic Solitudes: Canadian-Jewish and German-Jewish Writers in Dialogue with Kafka Iris Bruce
 Chapter 10. A German-Jewish-American Dialogue?: Literary Encounters Between German Jews and Americans in the 1990s Todd Herzog
 Jewish Writers in Germany and Austria
 Chapter 11. "Attempts To Read The World": An Interview with the Writer Barbara Honigmann Bettina Brandt
 Chapter 12. Behind the Tränenpalast Esther Dischereit
 Chapter 13. Germans Are Least Willing to Forgive those who Forgive Them: A Case Study of Myself Jeanette Lander
 Chapter 14. Mishmash und Mélange Doron Rabinovici
 Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

Autorenportrait

Todd Herzog is an Associate Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He has authored articles on contemporary German-Jewish and Austrian-Jewish literature, crime films and techniques of criminal investigation, and theories of cultural hybridity. He is co-editor (along with Sander Gilman) of A New Germany in a New Europe (Routledge, 2001) and author of <a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=HerzogCrime">Crime Stories</a> (Berghahn, 2009).