Rebirth of a culture
Subtitle: Jewish identity and Jewish writing in Germany and Austria today
By: edited by Hillary Hope Herzog, Todd Herzog & Benjamin Lapp.
Contributors: Herzog, Hillary Hope.; Herzog, Todd.; Lapp, Benjamin, 1958-
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781845455118
Subjects: German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; German literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Jews -- Identity; Jewish authors -- Germany; Jewish authors -- Austria
Description: "Alter 1945, Jewish writing in German was almost unimaginable - and then only in reference to the Shoah. Only in the 1980s, after a period of mourning, silence, and processing of the trauma, did a new Jewish literature evolve in Germany and Austria. This volume focuses on the re-emergence of a lively Jewish cultural scene in the German-speaking countries and the various cultural forms of expression that have developed around it. Topics include current debates such as the emergence of a post-Waldheim Jewish discourse in Austria and Jewish responses to German unification and the Gulf wars.

Other significant themes addressed are the memorialization of the Holocaust in Berlin and Vienna, the uses of Kafka in contemporary German literature, and the German and American-Jewish dialogue as representative of both the history of exile and the globalization of postmodern civilization. The volume is enhanced by contributions from some of the most significant representatives of German-Jewish writing today such as Esther Dischereit, Barbara Honigmann, Jeanette Lander, and Doron Rabinovici. The result is a lively dialogue between European and North American scholars and writers that captures the complexity and dynamism of Jewish culture in Germany and Austria at the turn of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.