Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary - An Anthology (Paperback, New)

"Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary" features works by twenty-four of Hungary's best writers who have written about what it means to be Jewish in post-Holocaust Eastern Europe. This volume includes work by Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz and other internationally known writers such as Gyorgy Konrad and Peter Nadas, but most of the authors appear here in English for the first time. This anthology features poetry, long and short stories, and excerpts from memoirs and novels by postwar writers. Some of these authors were well known in Hungary before World War II, some were children or adolescents during the war and began publishing in the 1970s, some were born to survivors in the years immediately following the war and grew up during the decades of Communist rule, while others started publishing chiefly after the fall of Communism in 1989. Unique among Eastern European countries, Hungary still has a large and visible Jewish population, many of them writers and intellectuals living in Budapest. This anthology introduces English-speaking readers to outstanding works of literature that show the wide range of responses to Jewish identity in contemporary Hungary. The editors' introduction provides a historical and critical context for these works and discusses the important role of Jews in Hungarian culture from the late nineteenth century to the present.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World
Release date:	October 2003
First published:	October 2003
Editors:	Susan Rubin Suleiman • Eva Forgacs
Dimensions:	229 x 140 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	437
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-9304-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies Promotions
LSN:	0-8032-9304-6
Barcode:	9780803293045

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