Lerner / Stern Feuchtwanger and Judaism

History, Imagination, Exile
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78874-557-4
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
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This collection of essays is devoted to the Jewish themes that ran through Lion Feuchtwanger’s life, works and worlds. Beginning with a selection of Feuchtwanger’s unpublished writings, speeches, and interviews, the volume examines the author’s approaches to Jewish history, Zionism, Judaism’s relationship to early Christianity and to eastern religions, and Jewish identity through his works, above all his historical fiction. Essays also trace translations of his works into English and Russian, and the meaning of his writing for various communities of Jewish and non-Jewish readers in Britain, North America, and the Soviet Union. A final section frames the issues around Feuchtwanger and Jewishness more broadly by considering the condition of exile and expanding the focus to communities of émigré writers and political figures in North America and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lerner, Paul

Stern, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS: Paul Lerner/Frank Stern: Introduction – Margrit Frölich: Lion Feuchtwanger’s Jewish Historical Consciousness in America – Paul Lerner: Rethinking Jewishness in Dark Times: Feuchtwanger and Arnold Zweig on Judaism, Zionism, and History – Detlef Blasche: Frühes Christentum in Lion Feuchtwangers Josephus-Trilogie – Sebastian Musch: Historical, Political, and Metaphysical Aspects of the East in Feuchtwanger’s Der falsche Nero – Adrian Feuchtwanger: Caught between Cultures: Lion Feuchtwanger’s Flavius Josephus – Ian Wallace: Jud Süß in English Translation – Marat Grinberg: The Soviet Jewish Scripture: Lion Feuchtwanger and the Soviet Jewish Bookshelf – Anne Hartmann: Lion Feuchtwanger and the Question of Jewish Identity in Stalinist Russia – Michaela Enderle-Ristori: „Umwerthung aller Werthe"? Heinrich Mann, Das Zwanzigste Jahrhundert und das Judentum – Sean Nye: Listening in the Waiting Room: Feuchtwanger on the Acoustics of Exile – Marje Schuetze-Coburn – Aufbau: The Bridge between America and Europe during Lion Feuchtwanger’s Years in Exile – Birgit Maier-Katkin: Anna Seghers and Judaism

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Lerner is Professor of History at the University of Southern
California specializing in German-Jewish cultural history. He is the
author of The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the
Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940 and Hysterical Men: War,
Psychiatry and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890–1930 and the
editor of works on Jewish consumer culture, Los Angeles as a site of
German-American crossings, and German Jews and gender history.

Frank Stern is Professor for Visual and Contemporary Culture
at the University of Vienna specializing in German-Jewish, Austrian-
Jewish and Israeli cultural history with a focus an cinema. He is the
author of The Whitewashing of the Yellow Badge: Antisemitism and
Philosemitism in Postwar Germany and Franz Rosenzweig. Denker
der Jüdischen Moderne and the editor of Feuchtwanger und Exil and
numerous other publications on film and cultural history.