Evolving Jewish Identities in German Culture - Borders and Crossings

List of contents

Foreword by Sander L. Gilman
Introduction
Drawing Borders: Cutting and Binding Communities
Regeneration of the Volkskörper and the Jew's Body: The German Körperkulter Movement at the Turn of the Century by Christopher Kenway
The Palimpsestic Identity: Residual Discourses on Jews Exemplified by German Notgeld by Sonja M. Hedgepeth
Reconciliation before Auschwitz: The Weimar Jewish Experience in Popular Fiction from the Israelitisches Familienblatt by David Brenner
Binding Together by Cutting Apart: Circumcision, Kafka, and Minority Discourse by Stephen Taubeneck
Bridges and Gulfs: Intergenerational Ruptures and Connections
From Big Daddy to Small Literature: On Taking Kafka at His Word by Scott Spector
"A Frosty Hall of Mirrors": Father Knows Best in Franz Kafka and Nadine Gordimer by Iris Bruce
Narrative Strategies to Disclose Pious Lies in the Works of Irene Dische by Diana Orendi
Through a Distant Lens: Cultural Displacement, Connection, and Disconnection in the Writing of Maxim Biller by Linda E. Feldman
Redrawing Borders: Redefining Jewish Identity
"My Ears Repeat": Interpretive Supplementarity in Esther Dischereit's Novel Joëmis Tisch: Eine judische Geschichte by Sabine I. Gölz
Zapping Jews, Zapping Turks: Microchip Murder and Identity Slippage by Linda E. Feldman
The New Expatriates--Three American-Jewish Writers in Germany Today by Diana Orendi
An Entrepreneur of Victimhood: Jewish Identity in the Confessions of a Stasi Informant by Denis Sweet
Further Reading
Index

About the author

LINDA E. FELDMAN is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. She has published works on the portrayals of Jews and women in the writings of the H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen and is currently completing a monograph on the memoirs of Glückel von Hameln.

DIANA ORENDI is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Studies at Cleveland State University. She is currently developing courses on non-western literature and pursuing research interests in Holocaust studies, film studies, and issues of German-American literary relations. Her publications include a biography of Rahel Sanzara, whose novel Das Verlorene Kind she re-edited.

Product details

• Authors: Feldman Linda E., Orendi Diana
• Assisted by: Linda E. Feldman (Editor), Diana Orendi (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2000
• EAN: 9780275955571
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95557-1
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Cultural Studies, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, german, Jewish Studies, Social issues & processes, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social and ethical issues, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Relating to Jewish people and groups, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Social groups: religious groups and communities, The Arts: World Literature