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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany

Author : Leslie Morris,Karen Remmler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0803239408

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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany by Leslie Morris,Karen Remmler Pdf

This anthology features a diverse and compelling array of writings from prominent Jewish authors in Germany today. The writers included here-Katja Behrens, MaximøBiller, Esther Dischereit, and Barbara Honigmann-did not experience the Holocaust firsthand, though their works continually explore the meaning of it as it is remembered and forgotten in contemporary Germany. From different perspectives these authors offer incisive reflections on German-Jewish relations today. They wrestle in particular with the strangeness of living in a country where unencumbered relationships between Germans and Jews are rare. Also surfacing in their writings are the many foundations and challenges to modern Jewish identity in Germany, including the vicissitudes of gender roles, and the experience of emigration, intergenerational conflict, and sexuality. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany not only features a set of engaging stories but also encourages a deeper understanding of the experiences of Jews in Germany today.

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe

Author : Vivian Liska,Thomas Nolden
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253000071

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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe by Vivian Liska,Thomas Nolden Pdf

With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post--World War II Europe. Striking a balance between close readings of individual texts and general surveys of larger movements and underlying themes, the essays portray Jewish authors across Europe as writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid identities. Aimed at a general readership and guided by the idea of constructing bridges across national cultures, this book maps for English-speaking readers the productivity and diversity of Jewish writers and writing that has marked a revitalization of Jewish culture in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, and Russia.

Rebirth of a Culture

Author : Hillary Hope Herzog,Todd Herzog,Benjamin Lapp
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450289

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Rebirth of a Culture by Hillary Hope Herzog,Todd Herzog,Benjamin Lapp Pdf

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.

German Jewish Literature After 1990

Author : Katja Garloff,Agnes Mueller
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140219

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German Jewish Literature After 1990 by Katja Garloff,Agnes Mueller Pdf

Edited volume tracing the development of a new generation of German Jewish writers, offering fresh interpretations of individual works, and probing the very concept of "German Jewish literature."

Strangers in Berlin

Author : Rachel Seelig
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472130092

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Strangers in Berlin by Rachel Seelig Pdf

Insightful look at the interactions between German and migrant Jewish writers and the creative spectrum of Jewish identity

Making German Jewish Literature Anew

Author : Katja Garloff
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253063731

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Making German Jewish Literature Anew by Katja Garloff Pdf

In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional affiliations with places such as France, Russia, or Israel, affords a unique opportunity to analyze the foundational moments of diasporic literature. Making German Jewish Literature Anew is structured around a series of founding gestures: performing authorship, remaking memory, and claiming places. Garloff contends that these founding gestures are literary strategies that reestablish the very possibility of a German Jewish literature several decades after the Holocaust. Making German Jewish Literature Anew offers fresh interpretations of second-generation authors such as Maxim Biller, Doron Rabinovici, and Barbara Honigmann as well as of third-generation authors, many of whom come from Eastern European and/or mixed-religion backgrounds. These more recent writers include Benjamin Stein, Lena Gorelik, and Katja Petrowskaja. Throughout the book, Garloff asks what exactly marks a given text as Jewish—the author's identity, intended audience, thematic concerns, or stylistic choices—and reflects on existing definitions of Jewish literature.

Contemporary Jewish Writing

Author : Andrea Reiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135114732

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Contemporary Jewish Writing by Andrea Reiter Pdf

This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication formats over the last 25 years. Beginning with the Waldheim affair and the rhetorical response by the three most prominent members of the survivor generation (Leon Zelman, Simon Wiesenthal and Bruno Kreisky) author Andrea Reiter sets a complicated standard for ‘who is Jewish’ and what constitutes a ‘Jewish response.’ She reformulates the concepts of religious and secular Jewish cultural expression, cutting across gender and Holocaust studies. The work proceeds to questions of enacting or performing identity, especially Jewish identity in the Austrian setting, looking at how these Jewish writers and filmmakers in Austria ‘perform’ their Jewishness not only in their public appearances and engagements but also in their works. By engaging with novels, poems, and films, this volume challenges the dominant claim that Jewish culture in Central Europe is almost exclusively borne by non-Jews and consumed by non-Jewish audiences, establishing a new counter-discourse against resurging anti-Semitism in the media.

Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature

Author : Jessica Ortner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140226

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Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature by Jessica Ortner Pdf

Examines how German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe who migrated to Germany during or after the Cold War have widened European cultural memory to include the traumas of the Gulag.

When Kafka Says We

Author : Vivian Liska
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253353085

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When Kafka Says We by Vivian Liska Pdf

Taking as its starting point Franz Kafka's complex relationship to Jews and to communities in general, When Kafka Says We explores the ambivalent responses of major German-Jewish writers to self-enclosed social, religious, ethnic, and ideological groups. Vivian Liska shows that, for Kafka and others, this ambivalence inspired innovative modes of writing which, while unmasking the oppressive cohesion of communal groupings, also configured original and uncommon communities. Interlinked close readings of works by German-Jewish writers such as Kafka, Else Lasker-Schüler, Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan, Ilse Aichinger, and Robert Schindel illuminate the ways in which literature can subvert, extend, or reconfigure established visions of communities. Liska's rich and astute analysis uncovers provocative attitudes and insights on a subject of continuing controversy.

Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany

Author : Sander L. Gilman,Karen Remmler
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814732526

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Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany by Sander L. Gilman,Karen Remmler Pdf

How can there by a Jewish culture in today's Germany? Since the fall of the Wall, there has been a substantial increase in the visibility of Jews in German culture, not only an increase in the number of Jews living there, but, more importantly, an explosion of cultural activity. Jews are writing and making films about the central question of Jewish life after the Shoah. Given the xenophobia that has marked Germany since reunification, the appearance of a new Jewish is both surprising and normalizing. Even more striking than the reappearance of Jewish culture in England after the expulsion and massacres of the Middle Ages, the presence of a new generation of Jewish writers in Germany is a sign of the complexity and tenacity of modern Jewish life in the Diaspora. Edited by Sander L. Gilman and Karen Remmler and featuring works by many of the most noted specialists on the subject, including Susan Niemann, Y. Michael Bodemann, Marion Kaplan, Katharina Ochse, Robin Ostow, Rafael Seligmann, Jack Zipes, Jeffrey Peck, Kizer Walker, and Esther Dischereit, this volume explores the questions and doubts surrounding the revitalization of Jewish life in Germany. The writers cover such diverse topics as the social and institutional role that Jews now play, the role of religion in daily life, and gender and culture in post-Wall Jewish writing.

My Germany

Author : Lev Raphael
Publisher : Terrace Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299231538

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My Germany by Lev Raphael Pdf

Haunted by his parents’ horrific suffering and traumatic losses under Nazi rule, Lev Raphael grew up loathing everything German. Those feelings shaped his Jewish identity, his life, and his career. While researching his mother’s war years after her death, he discovers a distant relative living in the very city where she had worked in a slave labor camp, found freedom, and met his father. Soon after, Raphael is launched on book tours in Germany and, in the process, redefines himself as someone unafraid to face the past and let it go. Bookmarks, “Top Ten Nonfiction Titles of 2009”

Renegotiating Postmemory

Author : Maria Roca Lizarazu
Publisher : Dialogue and Disjunction: Stud
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781640140455

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Renegotiating Postmemory by Maria Roca Lizarazu Pdf

With the disappearance of the eyewitness generation and the globalization of Holocaust memory, this book interrogates key concepts in Holocaust and trauma studies through an assessment of contemporary German-language Jewish authors.

In Lieu of Memory

Author : Thomas Nolden
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815630891

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In Lieu of Memory by Thomas Nolden Pdf

This book provides a wide-ranging analysis of French Jewish authors born after the Shoah and traces the development of the rich agenda of jeune littérature juive (young Jewish writing) from its beginnings in the late 1970s, into the 1980s and 1990s, when it gained intense momentum. Thomas Nolden uses a wealth of biographical information to expound on his central thesis: the abrupt interruption of transmission of the Jewish heritage by assimilation, migration, and near-extermination required these writers to reinvent themselves, their past, and their memories as Jews. Nolden provides concise readings of the fiction of more than two dozen writers of both Sephardic and Ashkenazi background living in present-day France. He demonstrates how contemporary Jewish writing has responded historically, culturally, politically, and aesthetically to developments in French society and in Jewish culture. His critical analysis of the major themes, concerns, and stylistic features of the authors' work connects Jewish writing in France to the traditions of Jewish writing both during the Diaspora and in Israel.

Making German Jewish Literature Anew

Author : Katja Garloff
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253063748

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Making German Jewish Literature Anew by Katja Garloff Pdf

In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional affiliations with places such as France, Russia, or Israel, affords a unique opportunity to analyze the foundational moments of diasporic literature. Making German Jewish Literature Anew is structured around a series of founding gestures: performing authorship, remaking memory, and claiming places. Garloff contends that these founding gestures are literary strategies that reestablish the very possibility of a German Jewish literature several decades after the Holocaust. Making German Jewish Literature Anew offers fresh interpretations of second-generation authors such as Maxim Biller, Doron Rabinovici, and Barbara Honigmann as well as of third-generation authors, many of whom come from Eastern European and/or mixed-religion backgrounds. These more recent writers include Benjamin Stein, Lena Gorelik, and Katja Petrowskaja. Throughout the book, Garloff asks what exactly marks a given text as Jewish—the author's identity, intended audience, thematic concerns, or stylistic choices—and reflects on existing definitions of Jewish literature.

Being Jewish in the New Germany

Author : Jeffrey M. Peck
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0813537231

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Being Jewish in the New Germany by Jeffrey M. Peck Pdf

"This book was written for an American (Jewish) readership. But some chapters, especially the first two, address the non-specialist, while others, especially the last two, accommodate the expert. The work contains one theme and one thesis. The theme is simple and to be welcomed: Americans, and American Jews in particular, need to understand that Germany has changed and that its Jewish community is made up of more than just a few souls morbidly attached to blood-soaked soil. We are therefore introduced to Jewish writers, politicians and intellectuals; to Jews of Russian origin, German background and Israeli descent; and to the many issues facing today's German-Jewish community of 100,000 plus members. Peck discusses the role of the Holocaust in German and American political life. He relates how Russian Jews have begun to take over community institutions, revitalizing German Jewry especially in Berlin and the provinces. And he compares and contrasts the situation of Turks and Jews today, whom many Germans still perecive as foreign, no matter how acculturated they happen to be. All of this material is interesting, but not new"--Review from H-Net.