Contemporary Jewish Writing in Switzerland - An Anthology

An eclectic mix of eighteen modern works by a selection of Switzerland's heterogeneous community of Jewish writers. This collection includes work by Luc Bondy, Miriam Cahn, Daniel Ganzfried, Serguei Hazanov, Charles Lewinsky, Gabriele Markus, and Stina Werenfels, among others.

About the author

Rafaël Newman is a writer and translator living in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of The Visible God: Staging the History of Money and the editor of Zweifache Eigenheit: Neuere jüdische Literatur in der Schweiz.

Summary

Questions about Jewish identity and the legacy of the Holocaust remain contemporary and controversial in Switzerland. Talking about Jewish life in Switzerland, this anthology features an eclectic mix of eighteen modern works from Switzerland's heterogeneous Jewish writers.

Product details

• Authors: Rafael Newman
• Assisted by: Sander L. Gilman (Editor), Rafael Newman (Editor)
• Publisher: Nebraska
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9780803233423
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-3342-3
• No. of pages: 265
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Jewish Writing in the Contempo; Jewish Writing in the Contempo; Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World; Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies