Contemporary Jewish writing in Europe [electronic resource] : a guide / edited by Vivian Liska and Thomas Nolden.

ISBN:

9780253000071

9781282065789

Title:

Contemporary Jewish writing in Europe [electronic resource] : a guide / edited by Vivian Liska and Thomas Nolden.

Author:

Liska, Vivian, 1956-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 224 pages).

Series:

Jewish literature and culture

Contents:

Secret affinities: contemporary Jewish writing in Austria / Vivian Liska -- Writing against reconciliation: contemporary Jewish writing in Germany / Stephan Braese -- Remembering or inventing the past: second-generation Jewish writers in the Netherlands / Elrud Ibsch -- Bonds with a vanished past: contemporary Jewish writing in Scandinavia / Eva Ekselius -- Imagined communities: contemporary Jewish writing in Great Britain / Bryan Cheyette -- À la recherche du judaïsme perdu: contemporary Jewish writing in France / Thomas Nolden -- Ital'Yah letteraria: contemporary Jewish writing in Italy / Christoph Miething -- Writing along borders: contemporary Jewish writing in Hungary / Péter Varga with Thomas Nolden -- Making up for lost time: contemporary Jewish writing in Poland / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska -- De-centered writing: aspects of contemporary Jewish writing in Russia / Rainer Grübel & Vladimir Novikov.

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Subject Term:

Jewish literature -- Europe -- History and criticism.

European literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.

Jewish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Jewish authors -- Europe -- Biography.

Jews -- Europe -- Intellectual life.

Judaism and literature -- Europe.

Added Author:

Liska, Vivian, 1956-

Nolden, Thomas.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2008

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Summary

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 writing that has marked a revitalization of Jewish culture in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, and Russia.

Author Notes

Vivian Liska is Professor of German Literature and Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She is author of The Night of the Hymns: Paul Celan's Poems, 1938-1944 (in German).

Thomas Nolden is Professor of German at Wellesley College, where he directs the comparative literature program. He is author of In Lieu of Memory: Contemporary Jewish Writing in France.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

Liska (Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium) and Nolden (Wellesley College) insightfully contextualize historic and cultural national frames and elucidate common themes and genres of post-Holocaust literature. In addition to offering strong essays on familiar Austrian, German, and French works, the volume elucidates less-familiar writers of Poland, Russia, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Scandinavia through close readings of major figures or broad national overviews. Whereas the survivor generation focused on bearing witness to Nazi crimes, dominant among the themes treated by second- and third-generation writers is the Shoah legacy--Holocaust silence in representation of rupture, displacement, and loss juxtaposed with reconnection/revitalization of Jewish identity and community. The essayists read the contemporary, largely secular search for Jewish identity against a variety of backdrops: student-led social and political protests of 1968, the demise of communism, the Arab-Israeli conflict. Including good bibliographies with sources in languages of origin and English translations, this volume is an excellent complement to Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century, ed. by Sorrel Kerbel et al. (CH, Sep'03, 41-0021); Holocaust Literature, ed. by S. Lillian Kremer (CH, Jul'03, 40-6141); Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture, ed. by Glenda Abramson (CH, Sep'05, 43-0016); and volumes in Nebraska's "Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World" series. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers, all levels. S. L. Kremer emerita, Kansas State University