ISBN:
1845455118
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9781845455118
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9781282626799
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9780857450289
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 193 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Rebirth of a Culture : Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today
DDC:
830.9/3529240905
Keywords:
German literature History and criticism 21st century
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Jewish authors
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German literature Jewish authors
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History and criticism
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Jews Identity
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Jewish authors
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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