Ruth Kluger (1931 - 2020) passed away on October 5, 2020 in the
U.S. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt, she survived
Auschwitz and the Shoah together with her mother. After living in
Germany for a short time after the War, she immigrated to New York.
She was educated in the U.S. and received degrees in English
literature as well as her Ph.D. in German literature at the
University of California, Berkeley. She taught at several American
universities. She has numerous scholarly publications to her
credit, mostly in the fields of German and Austrian literary
history. She is also recognized as a poet in her own right, an
essayist, and a feminist critic. She returned to Europe, where she
was a guest professor in Goettingen and Vienna. Her memoir,
entitled weiter leben (1992), which she translated and revised in
an English parallel-text as Still Alive, was a major bestseller and
highly regarded autobiographical account of a Holocaust survivor.
It was subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages. It
has also generated a vigorous critical discussion in its own right.
Ruth Kluger received numerous prestigious literary prizes and other
distinctions. The present volume, The Legacy of Ruth Kluger and the
End of the Auschwitz Century, aims to honor her memory by assessing
critically her writings and career. Taking her biography and
writings as points of departure, the volume includes contributions
in fields and from perspectives which her writings helped to bring
into focus acutely. In the table of contents are listed the
following contributions: Sander L. Gilman, "Poetry and Naming in
Ruth Kluger's Works and Life"; Heinrich Detering, "'Spannung':
Remarks on a Stylistic Principle in Ruth Kluger's Writing"; Stephan
Braese, "Speaking with Germans. Ruth Kluger and the 'Restitution of
Speech between Germans and Jews'"; Irene Heidelberger-Leonard,
"Writing Auschwitz: Jean Amery, Imre Kertesz, and Ruth Kluger";
Ulrike Offenberg, "Ruth Kluger and the Jewish Tradition on Women
Saying Kaddish; Mark H. Gelber, "Ruth Kluger, Judaism, and Zionism:
An American Perspective"; Monica Tempian, "Children's Voices in the
Poetry of the Shoah"; Daniel Reynolds, "Ruth Kluger and the Problem
of Holocaust Tourism"; Vera Schwarcz, "A China Angle on Memory and
Ghosts in the Poetry of Ruth Kluger."
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