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Book SynopsisThis 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 Beginning with a selection of Feuchtwanger’s unpublished writings, speeches, and interviews, the volume examines the author’s approaches to Jewish history, Zionism, Judaism’s relationship to early Christianity and to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.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS: 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
