Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology
Devoted to collecting the finest Jewish writing from around the world, the Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World series consists of anthologies, by country, that are designed to present to the English-speaking world authors and works deserving international consideration. As a series, the books permit a broad examination of the international crosscurrents in Jewish thought and culture.

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria presents a gathering of writers from several generations who have published a remarkable range of works in recent decades. The result is a diverse portrait of Jewish experience in Austria since the Second World War. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz has assembled an extraordinary roster of literary talents, ranging from authors born in the early decades of this century to writers born after the Shoah. The volume maps a complex tradition of Jewish discourse marked by a profound awareness of the literary past, by the failure of a long-anticipated Austrian-Jewish symbiosis, and by the unparalleled tragedy of the Shoah. It is a modern tradition that has made an essential contribution to Austria's literary history while remaining, in Lorenz's words, "distinct and unassimilated."

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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology
Devoted to collecting the finest Jewish writing from around the world, the Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World series consists of anthologies, by country, that are designed to present to the English-speaking world authors and works deserving international consideration. As a series, the books permit a broad examination of the international crosscurrents in Jewish thought and culture.

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria presents a gathering of writers from several generations who have published a remarkable range of works in recent decades. The result is a diverse portrait of Jewish experience in Austria since the Second World War. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz has assembled an extraordinary roster of literary talents, ranging from authors born in the early decades of this century to writers born after the Shoah. The volume maps a complex tradition of Jewish discourse marked by a profound awareness of the literary past, by the failure of a long-anticipated Austrian-Jewish symbiosis, and by the unparalleled tragedy of the Shoah. It is a modern tradition that has made an essential contribution to Austria's literary history while remaining, in Lorenz's words, "distinct and unassimilated."

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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology

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Devoted to collecting the finest Jewish writing from around the world, the Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World series consists of anthologies, by country, that are designed to present to the English-speaking world authors and works deserving international consideration. As a series, the books permit a broad examination of the international crosscurrents in Jewish thought and culture.

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria presents a gathering of writers from several generations who have published a remarkable range of works in recent decades. The result is a diverse portrait of Jewish experience in Austria since the Second World War. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz has assembled an extraordinary roster of literary talents, ranging from authors born in the early decades of this century to writers born after the Shoah. The volume maps a complex tradition of Jewish discourse marked by a profound awareness of the literary past, by the failure of a long-anticipated Austrian-Jewish symbiosis, and by the unparalleled tragedy of the Shoah. It is a modern tradition that has made an essential contribution to Austria's literary history while remaining, in Lorenz's words, "distinct and unassimilated."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780803229235
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska
Publication date: 11/01/1999
Series: Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World Series
Pages: 363
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author


Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is a professor of German at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers (Nebraska 1997) and other books.

Table of Contents

Introductionxi
1.The Pre-World War I Generation
excerpt from "M.T.": That Is the Meantime5
excerpt from The Secret Heart of the Clock25
The New Guy43
Aunt Jolesch in Person49
The Draped Window61
excerpt from It Is Impossible To Speak about It Dispassionately65
The Waldheim Case81
I Love Living in Austria99
Aura and Origin103
Antisemitism on the Left - The Respectable Antisemitism115
2.The Interwar Generation
excerpt from The Soul Bird135
Death Fugue153
A Summons to Mistrust159
Rahel's Clothes161
My Father166
To Austria169
My Girlfriends170
Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?171
Bundschuh the War Criminal181
The Unknown Nation182
excerpt from The Galician Woman189
The Story of Lilith and Eve203
3.The Generation of Austrofascism, World War II, and the Shoah
Halloween and a Ghost209
An Admonition211
Vienna Neuroses212
Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Audience214
excerpt from Stein's Paranoia231
Prologue to Born-Where: Double Lamb243
4.The Post-Shoah Generation
excerpt from Wonderful, Wonderful Times: Shut Out255
Film, State, and Society in Eastern and Western Europe - and I273
Farewell to Jana Cerna282
excerpt from Lover, Traitor: A Jerusalem Story: Farewell to Jerusalem289
Youth in Vienna303
5.The Generation of the Second Austrian Republic
excerpt from Blissful Times, Brittle World317
The Right Nose329
Foreigners338
From Kreisky to Waldheim: Another Jewish Youth in Vienna349
Acknowledgments359
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