Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Jewish

Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik provides the first extensive exploration of the reception of Ka-Tzetnik's work and the role that his books have played in the larger discussion of the Holocaust and its memorialization around the world.

Including contributions from an international and interdisciplinary group of experienced scholars, the book examines the literary merits, historical context and public resonance of Ka-Tzetnik's stories. It also places his novels in the context of post-WWII debates about how the memories and testimonies of the victims of the...

This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries.

The closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature and culture is an integral part of its historical development. Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews,...

Als kulturelle Groe Munchens fuhrte die einst beruhmte Autorin Carry Brachvogel (1864-1942 in Theresienstadt) in Zeiten groer Umbruche emanzipiert und erfolgreich das Leben einer Vorreiterin: berufstatig, bewusst alleinerziehend, judisch. Brachvogel trug als Grunderin und tragende Figur des Munchner Schriftstellerinnenvereins mageblich dazu bei, der Autorentatigkeit auch als Frauenberuf Anerkennung zu verschaffen. Ihr literarischer Salon in Schwabing erlangte mit Gasten wie Rainer Maria Rilke oder Lou-Andreas Salome weit uber die Stadtgrenzen hinaus Bekanntheit. Mit dem erzwungenen Ruckzug...

Im Werk des judischen Schriftstellers Albert Cohen (1895-1981) tritt der Liebesbegriff in all seiner schillernden Ambivalenz und Komplexitat in einen kontinuierlichen Dialog mit dem ethischen Diskurs des Judentums. Die Studie macht dieses Beziehungsgeflecht zur Grundlage ihrer Reflexion und entwirft vor dem geistigen Hintergrund des Judentums eine Gesamtschau auf die bei Albert Cohen allgegenwartigen Erscheinungsformen der Liebe. Aus diesem Blickwinkel gedeutet ergeben die im Schreiben des Autors vielschichtig entfalteten zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungsmuster eine ethische Matrix, die den...

An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism. Born in Berlin, Lewisohn moved with his family in 1890 to South Carolina. Identified by others as a Jew, he remained an outsider throughout his youth. Lewisohn became a notable scholar and translator of German and French literature, teaching at...

An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism.

This second volume portrays Lewisohn's last decades as an outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany, a leading promoter of Jewish resettlement in Palestine, a member of Brandeis University's first faculty, and one of the earliest voices advocating Jewish...

In this volume, Mendelson-Maoz analyzes Israeli prose written between 1987 and 2007, relating mainly to the first and second intifadas, written by well-known authors such as Yehoshua, Grossman, Matalon, Castel-Bloom, Govrin, Kravitz, and Levy. Mendelson-Maoz raises critical questions regarding...