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Der Sammelband bietet einen Ueberblick zu den unterschiedlichen kulturellen Repraesentationen des Holocaust in Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten. Die Frage nach den Moeglichkeiten und Grenzen der Darstellbarkeit der Shoah steht im Zentrum der hier gesammelten Essays. Wie kann ein solches historisches Ereignis, das sich jeder abschliessenden Definition entzieht, dennoch kuenstlerisch gestaltet werden? Welche Narrationen bestimmen unser Bild der Shoah? Wie rahmen die unterschiedlichen Genres und Medien unsere Interpretationen? Diese und aehnliche Fragen werden zunaechst bei der kritischen Analyse von Filmen (Der ewige Jude, Shoah, Schindlers Liste, Hitlerjunge Salomon) und der Fernsehserie Holocaust zu beantworten gesucht. Als typische Beispiele der Holocaust Rezeption in den Vereinigten Staaten werden die Bearbeitung des Tagebuchs der Anne Frank (Theater und Film), des Comics Maus von Art Spiegelman und des Holocaust Museums in Washington interpretiert. Paedagogische Probleme der Behandlung des Holocaust im amerikanischen Hochschulunterricht schliessen den Band ab.

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New essays examining Goethe's relationship to the Jews, and the contribution of Jewish scholars to the fame of the greatest German writer. The success of Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners(1997) and the heated debates that followed its publication exposed once again Germany's long tradition of anti-Semitism as a major cause of the Holocaust. Goldhagen, like many before him, drew a direct and irresistible line from Luther's pamphlets against the Jews to Hitler's attempted annihilation of European Jewry. This collection of new essays examines the thesis of a universal anti-Semitism in Germany by focussing on its greatest author, Goethe, and seeing to what extent some scholars are justified in accusing him of anti-Semitism. It places the reception of Goethe's works in a broader historical context: his relationship to Judaism and the Jews; the reception of his works by the Jewish elite in Germany, the reception of the 'Goethe cult' by Jewish scholars; and the Jewish contribution to Goethe scholarship. The last section of the volume treats the Jewish contribution to Goethe's fame and to Goethe philology since the 19th century, and the exodus of many Jewish authors and scholars after 1933, when they took their beloved Goethe into exile. When a few of them returned to Germany after 1945, it was to a country that had lost Goethe's most devoted audience, the German Jews. KLAUS L. BERGHAHN and JOST HERMAND are professors of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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