| Ghetto Writing: Traditional and Eastern Jewry in German-Jewish Literature from Heine to Hilsenrath Contributor(s): Fuchs, Anne (Editor), Krobb, Florian (Editor), Fuchs, Anne (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1571130098 ISBN-13: 9781571130099 Publisher: Camden House (NY) OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1999 Annotation: This text contains fresh articles about a much neglected genre--fiction from and about the Jewish ghetto. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Jewish |
| Dewey: 830.989 |
| LCCN: 98-42293 |
| Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.33" W x 9.38" (1.15 lbs) 239 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries ghetto fiction played an important part in the expression of a particularly German-Jewish quest for identity. The volume Ghetto Writing takes the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Leopold Kompert's collection of ghetto stories Aus dem Ghetto (1848) to fill a gap and give testimony to an important genre that has been unduly silenced in the literary histories of the post-war period. The volume presents some 15 articles by scholars from Scandinavia, Germany, Great Britain, and Ireland whose contributions offer new analyses of ghetto writing by well known authors such as Heinrich Heine and Joseph Roth, and completely new material on forgotten ghetto writers who deserve to be rediscovered, such as Alexander Granach. The articles cover various types of ghetto writing, ranging from ghetto fiction in the tradition of Leopold Kompert and Karl Emil Franzos, to diaries, travelogues, autobiography, and even contemporary German HipHop and Rap lyrics. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fuchs, Anne: - Anne Fuchs is professor of modern German literature and culture at University College Dublin. |