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Rebirth of a culture : Jewish identity and Jewish writing in Germany and Austria today /

After 1945, Jewish writing in German was almost unimaginableand then only in reference to the Shoah. Only in the 1980s, after a period of mourning, silence, and the processing of the trauma, did a new Jewish literature evolve in Germany and Austria. This volume focuses on the re-emergence of a livel...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Herzog, Hillary Hope, Herzog, Todd, Lapp, Benjamin, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title page-Rebirth of a Culture; Contents; Introduction; Part I-German-Jewish writing and culture today; Chapter 1-The monster returns; Chapter 2-Hybridity, internarriage, and the (negative_ German_Jewish symbiosis; Chapter 3-A political tevye?; Chapter 4-Anti-Semitism because of Auschwitz; Part II-The Case of Austria; Chapter 5-'What once was, will always be possible'; Chapter 6-The global and the local in ruth beckermann's films and writings; Part III-Transatlantic Relationships; Chapter 7-The holocaust survivor as Germanist; Chapter 8-Transatlantic solitudes.
  • Chapter 9-A German-Jewish-American dialogue?Part IV-Jewish writers in Germany and Austria; Chapter 10-'Attempts to read the world'; Chapter 11-Behind the tranenpalast; Chapter 12-Gremans are least willing to forgive those who forgive them; Chapter 13-Mischmasch or Melance; Contributors; Index.