Österreich-Konzeptionen und jüdisches Selbstverständnis

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
Hanni Mittelmann, geb. 1947 in Regensburg. Studium in Heidelberg, Paris und Los Angeles (UCLA), unterrichtet seit 1979 neuere deutsche Literatur an der Hebräischen Universität in Jerusalem. Veröffentlichungen zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur.

Inhalt
Inhalt: Hanni Mittelmann/Armin A. Wallas, Österreich-Konzeptionen und jüdisches Selbstverständnis. Identitäts-Transfigurationen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. - Gerald Stourzh, The Age of Emancipation and Assimilation. Liberalism and its Heritage. - Emil Brix, Assimilation in the Late Habsburg Monarchy. - Steven Beller, Is There a Jewish Aspect to Modern Austrian Identity? - Jacques Le Rider, Moïse égyptien. - Jakob Hessing, Edges of Eternity: Richard Beer-Hofmann and Sigmund Freud. - Milly Heyd, Egon Schiele and Arnold Schönberg: Light within the Dissonance. - Ruth HaCohen, Reflections and Inflections of the Transfiguring Self: On the Music of the >UnheimlicheReichinnerer EmigrationTheaterland Österreich.< Die Rolle des Theaters zur Konstituierung von Identität in der Nachkriegszeit. - Robert S. Wistrich, The Haider Phenomenon. - Elazar Benyoëtz, Die Zukunft sitzt uns im Nacken.