{"product_id":"vienna-is-different-9780857451811","title":"Vienna Is Different","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssessing the impact of \u003cem\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eunheimlich heimisch\u003c\/em\u003e (eerily at home) in Vienna.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This thoroughly researched, lucid book offers a broad, insightful discussion of a complex subject. Steven Beller is Herzog's immediate scholarly predecessor, yet Herzog goes beyond the excellent work of her predecessors…Her choices of the writings to discuss are thoughtful and sometimes unexpected…Posing challenging questions while keeping the city always in view, Herzog concludes that though this rich tapestry of artists and viewpoints is irreducible, there are similarities and verities to reveal. This is the book's unique contribution. Highly recommended.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The strength of Vienna is Different lies in its combination of historical contextualization with individual case studies…[It] constitutes an informative guide to the continuities in Austrian Jewish literature during the long twentieth century and will be an excellent handbook for students in the field.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Modern Language Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This work is on the cutting edge of renewed interest in Jewish Austria. It is a comprehensive road map of a culture uprooted but replanted and blossoming anew into the twenty-first century. This is recommended reading for the scholar of Austrian literary history.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of Austrian Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Herzog’s book is an excellent study of Viennese Jewish writers—one that not only provides an excellent overview for use in the classroom, but that is also a fine piece of scholarship that reveals how “Vienna is different” from other European metropolises in the fascinating ways its contemporary Jewish authors reference the city’s vibrant literary tradition and cultural legacy.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Austrian History Yearbook\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“It is worth noting that Herzog gives the reader the necessary historical background to each chapter and sets her writers in their historical contexts. Furthermore, each writer is introduced with a short biographical background on their life and work…In addition to being a well-written and well-constructed book, Herzog’s study contributes not only to our understanding of the tradition of the Austrian-Jewish literature but also reminds us some of its forgotten protagonists, among them Felix Salten, the author of Bambi, a work whose fame far outstrips its author’s.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• European History Quarterly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“In tracing a tradition of Jewish writing in Vienna from the fin de siècle to the present, Herzog's book forms an important contribution to our understanding of Austrian literature and culture of the twentieth century. By focusing her analyses on the ways in which these writers conceptualized their identities as Jews, Herzog illuminates the complicated, yet continually changing relationships between Jewish writers and the city of Vienna.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• H-Judaic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…meticulously researched and clearly presented…Each chapter begins with a brief, well-informed overview of the period and the experiences of Jews in Austria during that time…This informative work successfully probes the engagement of an impressive range of writers with both their own self-identifications and Vienna. Sensitive and nuanced, it will serve scholars and others as the go-to guide for exploring issues of Jewishness in Austrian literature.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Habsburg, H-Net Reviews \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[A]n impressive account of the origins and development of what is now a tradition of Jewish writers in Vienna. The author does a very good job of presenting the very large subject she has taken on and of putting the turn-of-the-century writers within a chronological context that brings out how a ‘tradition’ of Jewish writers in Vienna has developed over the last century…This is an impressive contribution, with a welcome approach.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Steven Beller\u003c\/strong\u003e, Washington D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[A]n important, extremely well constructed and original inquiry and a major contribution to scholarship on Jewish writing and its authors’ literary reactions to the Austrian capital... In a systematic approach and within the proper historical context Herzog uncovers the panorama of Jewish-Austrian writing with Vienna as its focus…Comprehensive and thorough, it conveys a wealth of information on individual authors, their time, and the changing cultural environment.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Dagmar C. G. Lorenz\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Illinois at Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Historical Continuity of the Viennese Jewish Experience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. The Fin de Siècle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Jewish Immigrant Experience in Vienna\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Jewish Confrontation with a New Political Climate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tJewish Cultural Responses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tArthur Schnitzler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAdolf Dessauer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFelix Salten\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tStefan Zweig\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHugo von Hofmannsthal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tKarl Kraus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTheodor Herzl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRichard Beer-Hofmann\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. Jewish Vienna Between the World Wars\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tJewish Identity and World War I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA New Jewish Identity Crisis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRising Anti-Semitism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Beginning of the End\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tJews and the \u003cem\u003eAnschluss\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tJewish Cultural Responses in the Interwar Years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tArthur Schnitzler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFelix Salten\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tStefan Zweig\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tJoseph Roth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tKarl Kraus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHugo Bettauer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tElias Canetti\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tVeza Canetti\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. Jews and the Second Republic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Immediate Postwar Situation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Second Republic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAustrian Jews and the Second Republic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tJewish Identity after 1945\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIlse Aichinger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFriedrich Torberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHilde Spiel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. Viennese Jews from Waldheim to Haider and Beyond\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Waldheim Affair\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tJewish Writers and Vienna after Waldheim\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tContemporary Viennese Jewish Writing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRuth Beckermann\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRobert Schindel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDoron Rabinovici\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRobert Menasse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEva Menasse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tElfriede Jelinek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038904942935,"sku":"9780857451811","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857451811.jpg?v=1750941883","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vienna-is-different-9780857451811","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}