Feuchtwanger and Judaism

This collection of essays is devoted to the Jewish themes that ran through Lion Feuchtwanger's life, works and worlds. The author's approaches to Jewish history, Zionism, religion and Jewish identity are all explored. The book also more broadly considers the condition of exile and the communities of émigrés in North America and beyond.

Autorentext

Paul Lerner is Professor of History at the University of Southern California specializing in German-Jewish cultural history. He is the author of The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 188040 and Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 189030 and the editor of works on Jewish consumer culture, Los Angeles as a site of German-American crossings, and German Jews and gender history. Frank Stern is Professor for Visual and Contemporary Culture at the University of Vienna specializing in German-Jewish, Austrian- Jewish and Israeli cultural history with a focus an cinema. He is the author of The Whitewashing of the Yellow Badge: Antisemitism and Philosemitism in Postwar Germany and Franz Rosenzweig. Denker der Jischen Moderne and the editor of Feuchtwanger und Exil and numerous other publications on film and cultural history.

Inhalt

CONTENTS: Paul Lerner/Frank Stern: Introduction Margrit Frölich: Lion Feuchtwanger's Jewish Historical Consciousness in America Paul Lerner: Rethinking Jewishness in Dark Times: Feuchtwanger and Arnold Zweig on Judaism, Zionism, and History Detlef Blasche: Frühes Christentum in Lion Feuchtwangers Josephus-Trilogie Sebastian Musch: Historical, Political, and Metaphysical Aspects of the East in Feuchtwanger's Der falsche Nero Adrian Feuchtwanger: Caught between Cultures: Lion Feuchtwanger's Flavius Josephus Ian Wallace: Jud Süß in English Translation Marat Grinberg: The Soviet Jewish Scripture: Lion Feuchtwanger and the Soviet Jewish Bookshelf Anne Hartmann: Lion Feuchtwanger and the Question of Jewish Identity in Stalinist Russia Michaela Enderle-Ristori: Umwerthung aller Werthe"? Heinrich Mann, Das Zwanzigste Jahrhundert und das Judentum Sean Nye: Listening in the Waiting Room: Feuchtwanger on the Acoustics of Exile Marje Schuetze-Coburn Aufbau: The Bridge between America and Europe during Lion Feuchtwanger's Years in Exile Birgit Maier-Katkin: Anna Seghers and Judaism