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Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-De-Siècle to the Present
Contributor(s): Herzog, Hillary Hope (Author)
ISBN: 0857451812     ISBN-13: 9780857451811
Publisher: Berghahn Books
OUR PRICE:   $128.25  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2011
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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
 
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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.