Rebirth of a Culture

Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-511-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

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 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. Other significant themes addressed are the memorialization of the Holocaust in Berlin and Vienna, the uses of Kafka in contemporary German literature, and the German and American-Jewish dialogue as representative of both the history of exile and the globalization of postmodern civilization. The volume is enhanced by contributions from some of the most significant representatives of German-Jewish writing today such as Esther Dischereit, Barbara Honigmann, Jeanette Lander, and Doron Rabinovici. The result is a lively dialogue between European and North American scholars and writers that captures the complexity and dynamism of Jewish culture in Germany and Austria at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herzog, Hillary Hope

Herzog, Todd

Lapp, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Dagmar Lorenz

German-Jewish Writing and Culture Today

Chapter 1. The Monster Returns: Golem Figures in the Writings of Benjamin Stein, Esther Dischereit, and Doron Rabinovici

Cathy S. Gelbin

Chapter 2. Hybridity, Intermarriage, and the (Negative) German-Jewish Symbiosis

Petra Fachinger

Chapter 3. A Political Tevye? Yiddish Literature and the Novels of Stefan Heym

Richard Bodek

Chapter 4. Anti-Semitism because of Auschwitz: An Introduction to the Works of Henryk M. Broder

Roland Dollinger

The Case of Austria

Chapter 5. "What once was, will always be possible:" The Echoes of History in Robert Menasse’s Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle

Margy Gerber

Chapter 6. Austria’s Topography of Memory: Heldenplatz, Albertinaplatz, Judenplatz, and Beyond

Eva Kuttenberg

Chapter 7. The Global and the Local in Ruth Beckermann’s Films and Writings

Hillary Hope Herzog

Transatlantic Relationships

Chapter 8. The Holocaust Survivor as Germanist: Ruth Kluger and Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Benjamin Lapp

Chapter 9. Transatlantic Solitudes: Canadian-Jewish and German-Jewish Writers in Dialogue with Kafka

Iris Bruce

Chapter 10. A German-Jewish-American Dialogue?: Literary Encounters Between German Jews and Americans in the 1990s

Todd Herzog

Jewish Writers in Germany and Austria

Chapter 11. "Attempts To Read The World": An Interview with the Writer Barbara Honigmann

Bettina Brandt

Chapter 12. Behind the Tränenpalast

Esther Dischereit

Chapter 13. Germans Are Least Willing to Forgive those who Forgive Them: A Case Study of Myself

Jeanette Lander

Chapter 14. Mishmash und Mélange

Doron Rabinovici

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Herzog, Hillary Hope
Hillary Hope Herzog is an Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Kentucky. She has written articles on a wide range of topics, including Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian-Jewish culture, and Irmgard Keun. She is currently working on a book about Austrian-Jewish culture from the end of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Herzog, Todd
Todd Herzog is an Associate Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He has authored articles on contemporary German-Jewish and Austrian-Jewish literature, crime films and techniques of criminal investigation, and theories of cultural hybridity. He is co-editor (along with Sander Gilman) of A New Germany in a New Europe (Routledge, 2001) and author of Crime Stories (Berghahn, 2009).

Lapp, Benjamin
Benjamin Lapp is currently Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University and lives in New York City. His publications include Revolution from the Right: Politics, Class and the Rise of Nazism in Saxony, 1919-1933 (Humanities Press/Brill, 1997). He is now pursuing a research project on Holocaust survivors in the United States.

Hillary Hope Herzog is an Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Kentucky. She has written articles on a wide range of topics, including Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian-Jewish culture, and Irmgard Keun. She is currently working on a book about Austrian-Jewish culture from the end of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twenty-first century.