With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post-World War II Europe. Striking a balance between close readings of individual texts and general surveys of larger movements and underlying themes, the essays portray Jewish authors across Europe as writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid identities. Aimed at a general readership and guided by the idea of constructing bridges across national cultures, this book maps for English-speaking readers the productivity and diversity of Jewish writers and...
With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post-World War II Europe. Str...
Voices of the Diaspora offers, for the first time, representative works by major Jewish women writers from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Russia. These stories and essays, written over the last twenty-five years, speak to the challenges confronting the post-Shoah generations of Jews living in Europe: a need to commemorate the lives extinguished in the camps; a desire to repair a ruptured culture; and a determination to reclaim a Jewish identity resistant to assimilation and the threats of anti-Semitism. At the same time, these writers address...
Voices of the Diaspora offers, for the first time, representative works by major Jewish women writers from Austria, England, France, Germany, I...
Voices of the Diaspora offers, for the first time, representative works by major Jewish women writers from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Russia. These stories and essays, written over the last twenty-five years, speak to the challenges confronting the post-Shoah generations of Jews living in Europe: a need to commemorate the lives extinguished in the camps; a desire to repair a ruptured culture; and a determination to reclaim a Jewish identity resistant to assimilation and the threats of anti-Semitism. At the same time, these writers address...
Voices of the Diaspora offers, for the first time, representative works by major Jewish women writers from Austria, England, France, Germany, I...
A wide-ranging analysis of French Jewish authors born after the Shoah, this book traces the rich development of young Jewish writing from its beginning in the late 1970s, into the 1980s and 1990s, when it gained intense momentum.
A wide-ranging analysis of French Jewish authors born after the Shoah, this book traces the rich development of young Jewish writing from its beginnin...
