Holocaust migration in German Jewish literatures / Agnes Mueller

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mueller, Agnes C., 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German fiction--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

German fiction.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Collective memory and literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"Analysing the past two decades of literature on Holocaust memory and migration stories, Agnes Mueller engages with writers such as W. G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard, Edgar Hilsenrath, Benjamin Stein, Mirna Funk, Fred Wander, Barbara Honigmann, Julia Franck, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Olga Grjasnowa, and Kat Kaufmann to explore current debates on Israel, the German Democratic Republic, gender, Jewish and Muslim identity, and antisemitism. Her new readings of German-language texts by younger authors present robust challenges to entrenched ideas concerning the singularity of the Holocaust, multidirectional memory, and a range of other memory debates. Jewish identity and Muslim identity are shown in direct conversation with other migrants' experiences, and literature is revealed to be a brave space where Holocaust memory is newly imagined. Mueller's study invites a radically new way to think about the Holocaust and sheds new and valuable light on adjacent contemporary discourses"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Introduction : Literature matters

Divergent Holocaust memories

Jewish voices from East Germany

Judaism and gender : from stereotype to contiguity

German Holocaust memory in Israel

Migration and the future of Holocaust memory

Coda : Brave spaces

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed July 2, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Mueller, Agnes C., 1968- Holocaust migration in German Jewish literatures

ISBN:

9781009748445

1009748440

9781009748476

1009748475

OCLC:

1585500983

Publisher Number:

CIPO000365885

CIPO000381823

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license