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Rebirth of a culture : Jewish identity and Jewish writing in Germany and Austria today / edited by Hillary Hope Herzog, Todd Herzog & Benjamin Lapp.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- German literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Jews--Identity.
- Jews.
- Jewish authors--Germany.
- Jewish authors.
- Jewish authors--Austria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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 the 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. Othe
- Contents:
- Title page-Rebirth of a Culture; Contents; Introduction; Part I-German-Jewish writing and culture today; Chapter 1-The monster returns; Chapter 2-Hybridity, internarriage, and the (negative_ German_Jewish symbiosis; Chapter 3-A political tevye?; Chapter 4-Anti-Semitism because of Auschwitz; Part II-The Case of Austria; Chapter 5-'What once was, will always be possible'; Chapter 6-The global and the local in ruth beckermann's films and writings; Part III-Transatlantic Relationships; Chapter 7-The holocaust survivor as Germanist; Chapter 8-Transatlantic solitudes
- Chapter 9-A German-Jewish-American dialogue?Part IV-Jewish writers in Germany and Austria; Chapter 10-'Attempts to read the world'; Chapter 11-Behind the tranenpalast; Chapter 12-Gremans are least willing to forgive those who forgive them; Chapter 13-Mischmasch or Melance; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612626791
- 9781282626799
- 1282626795
- 9780857450289
- 085745028X
- OCLC:
- 645100425
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