Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany

Leslie Morris is an assistant professor of German at the University of Minnesota. She is a coeditor of Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis, 1945–2000. Karen Remmler is an associate professor of German studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Waking the Dead: Correspondence between Walter Benjamin's Concept of Remembrance and Ingeborg Bachmann's "Ways of Dying."

"Morris and Remmler provide an insightful introduction to the authors and their works and to the cultural and historical context in which they write. The translations are smooth and accessible. . . . This volume will be of great value and interest."—Choice "An important series of contemporary Jewish writing abroad translated into English."—Library Journal "This thoughtfully assembled and fluidly translated collection brings together some of the most compelling Jewish writers in German literature today. As part of an important series of contemporary Jewish writing abroad translated into English, the book reveals how heavy the burden of a traumatic history remains for the descendants of the Nazis' victims. Instead of being mournful and dejected, however, these pieces are intelligent, occasionally irreverent, and sometimes even funny reflections on particularly German modes of memory and repression and on the at times bizarre aspects of Jewish life in a country that only two generations ago rallied for the destruction of an entire people. Recommended for all academic libraries and specialized collections." —Library Journal "[Morris and Remmler] have provided a great service, one much undervalued in the academy, by translating and introducing to English-speaking audiences a series of texts central to the study of contemporary Jewish and German culture."—Jeffrey A. Grossman, Colloquia Germanica

• Preface; Introduction; Arthur Mayer, or The Silence - Katja Behrens; Solomon and the Others- Katja Behrens; Excerpt from Sohara's Journey - Barbara Honigmann; Excerpts from On Sunday the Rabbi Plays Soccer - Barbara Honigmann; Double Burial from Novel by a Child - Barbara Honigmann; Joemi's Table: A Jewish Story - Esther Dischereit; Harlem Holocaust - Maxim Biller; Glossary; Acknowledgments