Hillary Hope Herzog is an Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Kentucky. She has written articles on a wide range of topics, including Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian-Jewish culture, and Irmgard Keun. She is currently working on a book about Austrian-Jewish culture from the end of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twenty-first century.

“This incredibly useful and interesting book brings together contributions from scholars and writers who have been working on the dynamic changes in Austrian and German Jewish writing over the last few decades.”  ·  H-Net, Habsburg“Without exception, all contributions constitute informative, well-researched and reasonably argued pieces of scholarship…thoughtfully conceived and carefully edited, adding up to an informative source book with a useful index of names and topics.”  ·  German Studies Review"...it is an outstanding piece of scholarship, focusing on an important emerging topic within contemporary German literature."  ·  Guy Stern, Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University

• IntroductionDagmar LorenzGerman-Jewish Writing and Culture TodayChapter 1. The Monster Returns: Golem Figures in the Writings of Benjamin Stein, Esther Dischereit, and Doron RabinoviciCathy S. GelbinChapter 2. Hybridity, Intermarriage, and the (Negative) German-Jewish SymbiosisPetra FachingerChapter 3. A Political Tevye? Yiddish Literature and the Novels of Stefan HeymRichard BodekChapter 4. Anti-Semitism because of Auschwitz: An Introduction to the Works of Henryk M. BroderRoland DollingerThe Case of AustriaChapter 5. "What once was, will always be possible:" The Echoes of History in Robert Menasse’s Die Vertreibung aus der HölleMargy GerberChapter 6. Austria’s Topography of Memory: Heldenplatz, Albertinaplatz, Judenplatz, and BeyondEva KuttenbergChapter 7. The Global and the Local in Ruth Beckermann’s Films and WritingsHillary Hope HerzogTransatlantic RelationshipsChapter 8. The Holocaust Survivor as Germanist: Ruth Kluger and Marcel Reich-RanickiBenjamin LappChapter 9. Transatlantic Solitudes: Canadian-Jewish and German-Jewish Writers in Dialogue with KafkaIris BruceChapter 10. A German-Jewish-American Dialogue?: Literary Encounters Between German Jews and Americans in the 1990sTodd HerzogJewish Writers in Germany and AustriaChapter 11. "Attempts To Read The World": An Interview with the Writer Barbara HonigmannBettina BrandtChapter 12. Behind the TränenpalastEsther DischereitChapter 13. Germans Are Least Willing to Forgive those who Forgive Them: A Case Study of MyselfJeanette LanderChapter 14. Mishmash und MélangeDoron RabinoviciNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Hillary Hope Herzog is an Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Kentucky. She has written articles on a wide range of topics, including Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian-Jewish culture, and Irmgard Keun. She is currently working on a book about Austrian-Jewish culture from the end of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twenty-first century.

“This incredibly useful and interesting book brings together contributions from scholars and writers who have been working on the dynamic changes in Austrian and German Jewish writing over the last few decades.”  ·  H-Net, Habsburg“Without exception, all contributions constitute informative, well-researched and reasonably argued pieces of scholarship…thoughtfully conceived and carefully edited, adding up to an informative source book with a useful index of names and topics.”  ·  German Studies Review"...it is an outstanding piece of scholarship, focusing on an important emerging topic within contemporary German literature."  ·  Guy Stern, Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University

• IntroductionDagmar LorenzGerman-Jewish Writing and Culture TodayChapter 1. The Monster Returns: Golem Figures in the Writings of Benjamin Stein, Esther Dischereit, and Doron RabinoviciCathy S. GelbinChapter 2. Hybridity, Intermarriage, and the (Negative) German-Jewish SymbiosisPetra FachingerChapter 3. A Political Tevye? Yiddish Literature and the Novels of Stefan HeymRichard BodekChapter 4. Anti-Semitism because of Auschwitz: An Introduction to the Works of Henryk M. BroderRoland DollingerThe Case of AustriaChapter 5. "What once was, will always be possible:" The Echoes of History in Robert Menasse’s Die Vertreibung aus der HölleMargy GerberChapter 6. Austria’s Topography of Memory: Heldenplatz, Albertinaplatz, Judenplatz, and BeyondEva KuttenbergChapter 7. The Global and the Local in Ruth Beckermann’s Films and WritingsHillary Hope HerzogTransatlantic RelationshipsChapter 8. The Holocaust Survivor as Germanist: Ruth Kluger and Marcel Reich-RanickiBenjamin LappChapter 9. Transatlantic Solitudes: Canadian-Jewish and German-Jewish Writers in Dialogue with KafkaIris BruceChapter 10. A German-Jewish-American Dialogue?: Literary Encounters Between German Jews and Americans in the 1990sTodd HerzogJewish Writers in Germany and AustriaChapter 11. "Attempts To Read The World": An Interview with the Writer Barbara HonigmannBettina BrandtChapter 12. Behind the TränenpalastEsther DischereitChapter 13. Germans Are Least Willing to Forgive those who Forgive Them: A Case Study of MyselfJeanette LanderChapter 14. Mishmash und MélangeDoron RabinoviciNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Hillary Hope Herzog is an Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Kentucky. She has written articles on a wide range of topics, including Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian-Jewish culture, and Irmgard Keun. She is currently working on a book about Austrian-Jewish culture from the end of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twenty-first century.

“This incredibly useful and interesting book brings together contributions from scholars and writers who have been working on the dynamic changes in Austrian and German Jewish writing over the last few decades.”  ·  H-Net, Habsburg“Without exception, all contributions constitute informative, well-researched and reasonably argued pieces of scholarship…thoughtfully conceived and carefully edited, adding up to an informative source book with a useful index of names and topics.”  ·  German Studies Review"...it is an outstanding piece of scholarship, focusing on an important emerging topic within contemporary German literature."  ·  Guy Stern, Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University

• IntroductionDagmar LorenzGerman-Jewish Writing and Culture TodayChapter 1. The Monster Returns: Golem Figures in the Writings of Benjamin Stein, Esther Dischereit, and Doron RabinoviciCathy S. GelbinChapter 2. Hybridity, Intermarriage, and the (Negative) German-Jewish SymbiosisPetra FachingerChapter 3. A Political Tevye? Yiddish Literature and the Novels of Stefan HeymRichard BodekChapter 4. Anti-Semitism because of Auschwitz: An Introduction to the Works of Henryk M. BroderRoland DollingerThe Case of AustriaChapter 5. "What once was, will always be possible:" The Echoes of History in Robert Menasse’s Die Vertreibung aus der HölleMargy GerberChapter 6. Austria’s Topography of Memory: Heldenplatz, Albertinaplatz, Judenplatz, and BeyondEva KuttenbergChapter 7. The Global and the Local in Ruth Beckermann’s Films and WritingsHillary Hope HerzogTransatlantic RelationshipsChapter 8. The Holocaust Survivor as Germanist: Ruth Kluger and Marcel Reich-RanickiBenjamin LappChapter 9. Transatlantic Solitudes: Canadian-Jewish and German-Jewish Writers in Dialogue with KafkaIris BruceChapter 10. A German-Jewish-American Dialogue?: Literary Encounters Between German Jews and Americans in the 1990sTodd HerzogJewish Writers in Germany and AustriaChapter 11. "Attempts To Read The World": An Interview with the Writer Barbara HonigmannBettina BrandtChapter 12. Behind the TränenpalastEsther DischereitChapter 13. Germans Are Least Willing to Forgive those who Forgive Them: A Case Study of MyselfJeanette LanderChapter 14. Mishmash und MélangeDoron RabinoviciNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex