| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 143 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in European culture and history |
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Studies in European culture and history.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. The Jewish return to Germany -- 3. Mythical interventions -- 4. Creating address -- 5. Belated interventions |
| Summary |
Combining cultural history and literary analysis, this study proposes a new reading of the changing relationship between Germans and Jews following the Holocaust. Two Holocaust survivors whose work became uniquely successful in the Germany of the 1980s and 1990s, Grete Weil and Ruth Klüger, emerge as major contributors to a postwar German discussion about the Nazi legacy that had largely excluded living Jews. By tracing the decades-long waxing and waning of the German public's interest in German-Jewish literature, and the particular cultural-political impact that Weil's and Klüger's works had on their German audience, it investigates the paradox of Germany's confrontation of the Holocaust without necessarily confronting the Jews as Germans |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Weil, Grete, 1906-1999 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Klüger, Ruth, 1931-2020 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Klüger, Ruth, 1931-2020 fast |
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Weil, Grete, 1906-1999 fast |
| Subject |
German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
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European history.
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Second World War.
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Jewish studies.
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -.
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Literary essays.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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History.
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German literature -- Jewish authors
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Letterkunde.
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Duits.
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Joden.
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Schrijvers.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781403979339 |
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1403979332 |
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9781403966575 |
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1403966575 |
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