The Jewish self-portrait in European and American literature

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The Jewish self-portrait in European and American literature

edited by Hans Jürgen Schrader, Elliott M. Simon, Charlotte Wardi

(Conditio Judaica : Studien und Quellen zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, 15)

Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996

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The Jewish self-portrait in European and American literature in the nineteenth and twenties [i.e. twentieth] centuries

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Corrected and updated papers, translated into English or German, from a colloquium "The Jewish self-portrait in European and American literature in the nineteenth and twenties [i.e. twentieth] centuries" held at Haifa University, Nov. 11-14, 1991, Haifa, Israel

English and German

Includes bibliographical footnotes and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The 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 Contents

Contents: Introduction. - H.-J. Schrader, Fichtenbaums Palmentraum. Ein Heine-Gedicht als Chiffre deutsch-judischer Identitatssuche. - 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-fe" in its Historical Context. - S. Schlenstedt, Zeichen des Selbstverstandnisses sozialistischer Autoren judischer Herkunft in der deutschen Literatur nach 1945. - S. Hubach, UEberlegungen zu Alexander Granachs Autobiographie "Da geht ein Mensch". - L. Kabdebo, Karoly 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 Amery 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 Selbstportrat eines wandernden Juden.

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  • NCID
    BA29831050
  • ISBN
    • 3484651156
  • LCCN
    96218889
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    engger
  • Original Language Code
    mul
  • Place of Publication
    Tübingen
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 278 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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