Confrontations / Accommodations

This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it comprises research monographs, collections of essays and annotated editions from the 18th century to the present. The term German-Jewish literature refers to the literary work of Jewish authors writing in German to the extent that Jewish aspects can be identified in these. However, the image of Jews among non-Jewish authors, often determined by anti-Semitism, is also a factor in the history of German-Jewish relations as reflected in literature. This series provides an appropriate forum for research into the whole problematic area.

This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries. The closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature and culture is an integral part of its historical development. Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews, and Jewish authors started writing in German, rather than Yiddish or Hebrew, even when they were articulating Jewish themes. This process is directly connected an historical change in mentality and social factors which led to a gradual opening towards a non-Jewish environment, which in its turn was becoming more open. In the Enlightenment, German society becomes the standard of reference initially for an intellectual elite. Against this background, the term German-Jewish literature refers to the literary work of Jewish authors writing in German to the extent that explicit or implicit Jewish themes, motifs, modes of thought or models can be identified in them.From the beginning of the 19th century at the latest, however, the image of Jews in the work of non-Jewish writers, determined mainly by anti-Semitism, becomes a factor in German-Jewish literature. There is a tension between Jewish writers' authentic reference to Jewish traditions or existence and the anti-Semitic marking and discrimination against everything Jewish which determines the overall development of the history of German-Jewish literature and culture. This series provides an appropriate forum for research into the whole problematic area.

Autorentext
Mark H. Gelber, geboren in New York, Studium an Universitäten in USA, Deutschland, Frankreich, Österreich, Israel. Seit 1980 an der Ben-Gurion Universität, Beer Sheva (Israel) tätig. Gastforscher bzw. Gastprofessur in USA, Österreich, Slowenien, Neuseeland, Belgien, Deutschland. Seit 2007 Leiter des Zentrums für österreichische und deutsche Studien, Beer Sheva. Veranstaltete zwei internationale Stefan Zweig Kongresse in Israel, sowie initiierte und mitorganisierte den ersten internationalen Stefan Zweig Kongress in Salzburg, 1992.

Zusammenfassung
"The book is well worth reading and including in in university libraries." (Larry L. Ping in. German Studies Review 3/2007)

Inhalt
Contents: Jocelyne Kolb, Lessing's Nathan, Heine's Lessing, and the Problem of >BuchstabentreueVaterlandsliebeUrheimatBildung< and the Aesthetics of Detachment: Schnitzler's »Der Weg ins Freie«. - Peter Demetz, Speculations about Prague Yiddish and its Disappearance: From its Origins to Kafka and Brod. - Ritchie Robertson, Schnitzler and Wassermann. - Jocelyne Kolb, A Tribute to Jeffrey L. Sammons on the Occasion of his Retirement. - Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Jeffrey L. Sammons.