Vienna Is Different : Jewish Writers in Austria From the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present
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| Title: | Vienna Is Different : Jewish Writers in Austria From the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present |
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| Description: | Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and exclusion, feeling “unheimlich heimisch” (eerily at home) in Vienna. |
| Authors: | Hillary Hope Herzog |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Judaism and literature--Austria--History, Jews--Austria--Intellectual life, Austrian literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism, Austrian literature--20th century--History and criticism, Jews in literature |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, HISTORY / Jewish |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and exclusion, feeling “unheimlich heimisch” (eerily at home) in Vienna. |
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| ISBN: | 9780857451811 9781782380498 9780857451828 9781807582807 |
