{"product_id":"rebirth-of-a-culture-jewish-identity-and-jewish-writing-in-germany-and-austria-today-9781845455118","title":"Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAfter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis incredibly useful and interesting book brings together contributions from scholars and writers who have been working on the dynamic changes in Austrian and German Jewish writing over the last few decades.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eH-Net, Habsburg\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“Without exception, all contributions constitute informative, well-researched and reasonably argued pieces of scholarship…thoughtfully conceived and carefully edited, adding up to an informative source book with a useful index of names and topics.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  German Studies Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"...it is an outstanding piece of scholarship, focusing on an important emerging topic within contemporary German literature.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Guy Stern\u003c\/b\u003e, Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDagmar Lorenz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eGerman-Jewish Writing and Culture Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e The Monster Returns: Golem Figures in the Writings of Benjamin Stein, Esther Dischereit, and Doron Rabinovici\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eCathy S. Gelbin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Hybridity, Intermarriage, and the (Negative) German-Jewish Symbiosis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePetra Fachinger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e A Political Tevye? Yiddish Literature and the Novels of Stefan Heym\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRichard Bodek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Anti-Semitism \u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c\/i\u003e of Auschwitz: An Introduction to the Works of Henryk M. Broder\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRoland Dollinger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eThe Case of Austria\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e \"What once was, will always be possible:\" The Echoes of History in Robert Menasse’s \u003ci\u003eDie Vertreibung aus der Hölle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMargy Gerber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Austria’s Topography of Memory: Heldenplatz, Albertinaplatz, Judenplatz, and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEva Kuttenberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e The Global and the Local in Ruth Beckermann’s Films and Writings\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHillary Hope Herzog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eTransatlantic Relationships\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e The Holocaust Survivor as \u003ci\u003eGermanist\u003c\/i\u003e: Ruth Kluger and Marcel Reich-Ranicki\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBenjamin Lapp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Transatlantic Solitudes: Canadian-Jewish and German-Jewish Writers in Dialogue with Kafka\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eIris Bruce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e A German-Jewish-American Dialogue?: Literary Encounters Between German Jews and Americans in the 1990s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eTodd Herzog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eJewish Writers in Germany and Austria\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e \"Attempts To Read The World\": An Interview with the Writer Barbara Honigmann\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBettina Brandt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Behind the Tränenpalast\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEsther Dischereit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Germans Are Least Willing to Forgive those who Forgive Them: A Case Study of Myself\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJeanette Lander\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e Mishmash und Mélange\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDoron Rabinovici\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042978267479,"sku":"9781845455118","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845455118.jpg?v=1750956494","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rebirth-of-a-culture-jewish-identity-and-jewish-writing-in-germany-and-austria-today-9781845455118","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}