Synopses & Reviews
Jewish identity in German culture remains in a critical state of flux. Analyzing its construction and perception in public discourse, the contributors of this volume discuss the works of a number of authors—from Kafka to new writers such as Irene Dische and Maxim Biller. In addition, topics covered include: American-Jewish writers in Germany, minority culture, homosexuality, and Jewish magazines.
Synopsis
Examines the ongoing construction of Jewish identity in 20th century German culture.
About the Author
LINDA E. FELDMAN is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada.DIANA ORENDI is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Studies at Cleveland State University.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Sander L. Gilman
Introduction
Drawing Borders: Cutting and Binding Communities
Regeneration of the Volkskorper and the Jew's Body: The German Korperkulter 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 Joemis Tisch: Eine judische Geschichte by Sabine I. Golz
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