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Book SynopsisThe articles in this collection originated from an international symposium at the University of Haifa and centre around a major topic in German, European and American literature, i.e. the way in which Jewish self-definition, both positive and negative, has materialized as a product of the tensions between secular culture and society on the one hand, and Jewish tradition and religion on the other. The broad range of authors (most of them of German-speaking origin) necessarily results in an almost equally broad range of answers to this central question. The volume is dedicated to the memory of the Israeli literary scholar Chaim Shoham.
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. - H.-J. Schrader, Fichtenbaums Palmentraum. Ein Heine-Gedicht als Chiffre deutsch-jüdischer Identitätssuche. - Th. Sparr, Selbstbild und Fremdbild von Juden im George-Kreis. - M. Pazi, Franz Werfel. - Ch. Schatzker, Die Jugendliteratur als Sozialisationsagentur. - R. Alter, Kafka as Kabbalist. - H. Barzel, Kafka's Jewish Identity. - M. Cavarocchi Arbib, Kafka and the 'Prager Kreis'. - T. Ruebner, Some Remarks Concerning Kafka the Jew. - E.M. Simon, The Transcendent Jew in the Works of Kazantzakis, Joyce and Bellow. - N. Flinker, American Jewish Self-Portrayal in Henry Roth and Robert Mezey. - S.P. Scheichl, Is Peter Kien a Jew? A Reading of Elias Canetti's "Auto-da-fé" in its Historical Context. - S. Schlenstedt, Zeichen des Selbstverständnisses sozialistischer Autoren jüdischer Herkunft in der deutschen Literatur nach 1945. - S. Hubach, Überlegungen zu Alexander Granachs Autobiographie "Da geht ein Mensch". - L. Kabdebó, Károly Pap's Vision of the Jews. - H. Yoaz, The Reflection of the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewish Poets Today. - K. Lorenz-Lindemann, Aspects of Jewish Self-Determination in the Works of Jean Améry and Primo Levi. - Z. Kagan, The Blind Spot of Jewish Self-Identity in the Work of M.J. Berdyczewski. - L. Hadomi, "Posing the Problem of Utopia": Stefan Heym and Schwarzenberg. - M. Jutrin, Benjamine Fondane: Portrait of a Jew and a Poet. - I. Tieder, Peter Weiss: Das Selbstporträt eines wandernden Juden.
