Combining cultural history and literary analysis, this study proposes a new and thought-provoking reading of the changing relationship between Germans and Jews following the Holocaust. Two Holocaust survivors whose work became uniquely successful in the Germany of the 1980s and 1990s, Grete Weil and Ruth Kluger, emerge as exemplary in their contributions to a postwar German discussion about the Nazi legacy that had largely excluded living Jews. While acknowledging that the German audience for the works of Holocaust survivors began to change in the 1980s, this study disputes the common...
Combining cultural history and literary analysis, this study proposes a new and thought-provoking reading of the changing relationship between Germans...
This study traces the changing relationship between Germans and Jews after the Holocaust through the work of authors Grete Weil and Ruth KlUger, Jewish survivors whose literary interventions in postwar Germany's discussion of its Nazi legacy enjoyed unique success in the 1980s and 1990s.
This study traces the changing relationship between Germans and Jews after the Holocaust through the work of authors Grete Weil and Ruth KlUger, Jewis...
