| Writer on the Run: German-Jewish Identity and the Experience of Exile in the Life and Work of Henry William Katz Reprint 2014 Edition Contributor(s): Pedersen, Ena (Author) |
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ISBN: 3484651334 ISBN-13: 9783484651333 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $146.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Literary Criticism | Jewish - History | Jewish - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2002329729 |
| Series: Conditio Judaica |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.02 lbs) 197 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first academic treatment of the life and work of Henry William Katz (1906-1992) who has been forgotten by scholars and critics for fifty years although his first novel won him the Heinrich-Heine-Prize in exile in 1937. From a combined literary, historical, biographical and sociological perspective, Ena Pedersen analyses Katz's depiction on the Eastern European Jews in Galicia, Weimar Germany and in exile, focusing on the problems of anti-Semitism, assimilation, German-Jewish symbiosis, and Jewish identity. The book further provides a first biography of Katz and places him in the context of German exile literature through comparisons with contemporary Jewish and non-Jewish writers in exile. |