Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-De-Siècle to the Present Contributor(s): Herzog, Hillary Hope (Author) |
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ISBN: 0857451812 ISBN-13: 9780857451811 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary - History | Jewish - General |
Dewey: 830.989 |
LCCN: 2010051789 |
Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 298 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Central Europe |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Assessing the impact of fin-de-si cle 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hope, Hillary: - Hillary Hope Herzog is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Kentucky, where she works in twentieth-century German literature, Austrian Studies, and the field of medicine and literature. She is co-editor of Rebirth of a Culture Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today (with Todd Herzog and Benjamin Lapp, Berghahn 2008) and the Journal of Austrian Studies. |