Authors: Dagmar C. Lorenz (Editor), Dagmar Lorenz
ISBN-13: 9780803229235, ISBN-10: 0803229232
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: November 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is a professor of German at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers (Nebraska 1997) and other books.
Devoted to collecting the finest Jewish writing from around the world, the Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World series consists of anthologies, by country, that are designed to present to the English-speaking world authors and works deserving international consideration. As a series, the books permit a broad examination of the international crosscurrents in Jewish thought and culture. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria presents a gathering of writers from several generations who have published a remarkable range of works in recent decades. The result is a diverse portrait of Jewish experience in Austria since the Second World War. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz has assembled an extraordinary roster of literary talents, ranging from authors born in the early decades of this century to writers born after the Shoah. The volume maps a complex tradition of Jewish discourse marked by a profound awareness of the literary past, by the failure of a long-anticipated Austrian-Jewish symbiosis, and by the unparalleled tragedy of the Shoah. It is a modern tradition that has made an essential contribution to Austria’s literary history while remaining, in Lorenz’s words, "distinct and unassimilated."
Introduction | xi | |
1. | The Pre-World War I Generation | |
excerpt from "M.T.": That Is the Meantime | 5 | |
excerpt from The Secret Heart of the Clock | 25 | |
The New Guy | 43 | |
Aunt Jolesch in Person | 49 | |
The Draped Window | 61 | |
excerpt from It Is Impossible To Speak about It Dispassionately | 65 | |
The Waldheim Case | 81 | |
I Love Living in Austria | 99 | |
Aura and Origin | 103 | |
Antisemitism on the Left - The Respectable Antisemitism | 115 | |
2. | The Interwar Generation | |
excerpt from The Soul Bird | 135 | |
Death Fugue | 153 | |
A Summons to Mistrust | 159 | |
Rahel's Clothes | 161 | |
My Father | 166 | |
To Austria | 169 | |
My Girlfriends | 170 | |
Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism? | 171 | |
Bundschuh the War Criminal | 181 | |
The Unknown Nation | 182 | |
excerpt from The Galician Woman | 189 | |
The Story of Lilith and Eve | 203 | |
3. | The Generation of Austrofascism, World War II, and the Shoah | |
Halloween and a Ghost | 209 | |
An Admonition | 211 | |
Vienna Neuroses | 212 | |
Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Audience | 214 | |
excerpt from Stein's Paranoia | 231 | |
Prologue to Born-Where: Double Lamb | 243 | |
4. | The Post-Shoah Generation | |
excerpt from Wonderful, Wonderful Times: Shut Out | 255 | |
Film, State, and Society in Eastern and Western Europe - and I | 273 | |
Farewell to Jana Cerna | 282 | |
excerpt from Lover, Traitor: A Jerusalem Story: Farewell to Jerusalem | 289 | |
Youth in Vienna | 303 | |
5. | The Generation of the Second Austrian Republic | |
excerpt from Blissful Times, Brittle World | 317 | |
The Right Nose | 329 | |
Foreigners | 338 | |
From Kreisky to Waldheim: Another Jewish Youth in Vienna | 349 | |
Acknowledgments | 359 |