Ghetto writing : traditional and Eastern Jewry in German-Jewish literature from Heine to Hilsenrath
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Ghetto writing : traditional and Eastern Jewry in German-Jewish literature from Heine to Hilsenrath
（Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin）
Camden House, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index
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Description
Fresh articles about a much neglected genre, fiction from and about the Jewish ghetto.
Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries ghetto fiction played an important part in the expression of a particularly German-Jewish quest for identity. The volume Ghetto Writing takes the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Leopold Kompert's collection of ghetto stories Aus dem Ghetto (1848) to fill a gap and give testimony to an important genre that has been unduly silenced in the literary histories of the post-war period. The volume presents some 15 articles by scholars from Scandinavia, Germany, Great Britain, and Ireland whose contributions offer new analyses of ghetto writing by well known authors such as Heinrich Heine and Joseph Roth, andcompletely new material on forgotten ghetto writers who deserve to be rediscovered, such as Alexander Granach. The articles cover various types of ghetto writing, ranging from ghetto fiction in the tradition of Leopold Kompert and Karl Emil Franzos, to diaries, travelogues, autobiography, and even contemporary German HipHop and Rap lyrics.
Table of Contents
The Frankfurt Judengasse in Eyewitness Accounts from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century - Eoin Bourke
Enlightened and Romantic Views of the Ghetto: David Frielander versus Heinrich Heine - Ritchie Robertson
Reclaiming the Location: Leopold Kompert's Ghetto Fiction in Post-Colonial Perspective - Florian Krobb
German Versus Jargon: Language and Jewish Identity in German Ghetto Writing - Gabriele Glasenapp
Eastern Jews and the Sociology of Nationalism - Chris Thornhill
Pogroms in Literary Representation - Joachim Beug
Philo-Simetic Tendencies in Wilhelm Jensen's Historical Novel Die Juden von Coelln - Joerg Thunecke
Views from fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Zionist Images of Eastern Jews in Herzl's Die Welt - Paul E. Kerry
The Construction of the Eastern Jewry in Joseph Roth's Juden auf Wanderschaft - David Horrocks
From Ghetto to Nation: Hofmannsthal's Poetics of Assimilation - Michael Kane
Persecution, Exile, and the Mental Ghetto in Henry William Katz's Novel Die Fischmanns - Ena Pedersen
The Shtetl's Curiosity and Style: Alexander Granach's Autobiographical Novel Da ghet ein Mensch - Michael Schmidt
Edgar Hilsenrath's Poetics of Insignificance and the Tradition of Humour in German-Jewish Ghetto Writing - Anne Fuchs
"Beyond the Jewish Ghetto: The Ghetto in Modern Punk and Rap Culture" by Frank Moebus and Martin B. Munch
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