Vienna Is Different

Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-181-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and exclusion, feeling “unheimlich heimisch” (eerily at home) in Vienna.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herzog, Hillary Hope

Hope, Hillary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

The Historical Continuity of the Viennese Jewish Experience

Chapter 1. The Fin de Siècle

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The Jewish Immigrant Experience in Vienna

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The Jewish Confrontation with a New Political Climate

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Jewish Cultural Responses

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Arthur Schnitzler

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Adolf Dessauer

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Felix Salten

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Stefan Zweig

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Karl Kraus

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Theodor Herzl

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Richard Beer-Hofmann

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Conclusion               

Chapter 2. Jewish Vienna Between the World Wars

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Jewish Identity and World War I

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A New Jewish Identity Crisis

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Rising Anti-Semitism

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The Beginning of the End

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Jews and the Anschluss

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Jewish Cultural Responses in the Interwar Years

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Arthur Schnitzler

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Felix Salten

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Stefan Zweig

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Joseph Roth

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Karl Kraus

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Hugo Bettauer

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Elias Canetti

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Veza Canetti

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Conclusion

Chapter 3. Jews and the Second Republic

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The Immediate Postwar Situation

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The Second Republic

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Austrian Jews and the Second Republic

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Jewish Identity after 1945

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Ilse Aichinger

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Friedrich Torberg

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Hilde Spiel

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Conclusion

Chapter 4. Viennese Jews from Waldheim to Haider and Beyond

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The Waldheim Affair

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Jewish Writers and Vienna after Waldheim

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Contemporary Viennese Jewish Writing

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Ruth Beckermann

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Robert Schindel

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Doron Rabinovici

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Robert Menasse

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Eva Menasse

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Elfriede Jelinek

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Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Hope, Hillary
Hillary Hope Herzog is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Kentucky, where she works in twentieth-century German literature, Austrian Studies, and the field of medicine and literature. She is co-editor of Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today (with Todd Herzog and Benjamin Lapp, Berghahn 2008) and the Journal of Austrian Studies.