|
Showing 1 - 3 of
3 matches in All Departments
Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent
developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to
consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing
across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that
stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later
the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the
imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author
focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers
and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension
with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and
exclusion, feeling "unheimlich heimisch" (eerily at home) in
Vienna.
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.
Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent
developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to
consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing
across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that
stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later
the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the
imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author
focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers
and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension
with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and
exclusion, feeling "unheimlich heimisch" (eerily at home) in
Vienna.
|
|