Feuchtwanger and Judaism : history, imagination, exile / Paul Lerner and Frank Stern (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958, writer of added text.

Lerner, Paul Frederick, editor.

Stern, Frank, 1944- editor.

Series:

Feuchtwanger studies ; v 6.

Feuchtwanger studies ; volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958.

Feuchtwanger, Lion.

Judaism.

Authors, German--Biography.

Authors, German.

Germany--Biography.

Germany.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 289 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

"This collection of essays is devoted to the Jewish themes that ran through Lion Feuchtwanger's life, works and worlds. Beginning with a selection of Feuchtwanger's unpublished writings, speeches, and interviews, the volume examines the author's approaches to Jewish history, Zionism, Judaism's relationship to early Christianity and to eastern religions, and Jewish identity through his works, above all his historical fiction. Essays also trace translations of his works into English and Russian, and the meaning of his writing for various communities of Jewish and non-Jewish readers in Britain, North America, and the Soviet Union. A final section frames the issues around Feuchtwanger and Jewishness more broadly by considering the condition of exile and expanding the focus to communities of émigré writers and political figures in North America and beyond." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / by Frank Stern and Paul Lerner

Part I Documents: Feuchtwanger on Judaism, Jewish History, and Jewish Identity

Part II Jewish Pasts, Jewish Futures

Lion Feuchtwanger's Jewish Historical Consciousness in America / Margrit Fröhlich

Rethinking Jewishness in Dark Times: Feuchtwanger and Arnold Zweig on Judaism, Jewish History and Zionism / Paul Lerner

Frühes Christentum in Lion Feuchtwangers Josephus Trilogie / Detlef Blasche

Historical, Political and Metaphysical Aspects of the East in Feuchtwanger's Der falsche Nero / Sebastian Musch

Caught Between Cultures: Lion Feuchtwanger's Flavius Josephus / Adrian Feuchtwanger

Part III Feuchtwanger in Translation: the Literary Imagination Abroad

Jud Suess in English Translation / Ian Wallace

The Soviet Jewish Scripture: Feuchtwanger and the Soviet Jewish Bookshelf / Marat Grinberg

Lion Feuchtwanger and the Question of Jewish Identity in Stalinist Russia / Anne Hartmann

Part IV Feuchtwanger and Friends: Exile, Identity, and Religion

Umwerthung aller Werte? Heinrich Mann, Das Zwanzigste Jahrhundert und das Judentum / Michaela Enderle-Ristori

Listening in the Waiting Room: Feuchtwanger on the Acoustics of Exile / Sean Nye

Aufbau: The Bridge between America and Europe during Lion Feuchtwanger's Years in Exile / Marje Schuetze-Coburn

Anna Seghers and Judaism / Birgit Maier-Katkin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781788745567

1788745566

OCLC:

1097365822