Yale companion to Jewish writing and thought in German culture, 1096-1996

by Sander L. Gilman (Editor)

Other authorsJack Zipes (Editor)
Hardcover, 1997

Status

Available

Call number

943.004 GIL

Collection

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1997.

Description

This magisterial book is the first to provide a history of Jewish writing and thought in the German-speaking world. By 119 of the most distinguished scholars in the field, the book is arranged chronologically, moving from the eleventh century to the present. Throughout, it depicts the unique contribution that Jewish writers have made to German culture and at the same time explores what it means to be the "other" within that mainstream culture.The contributors view German-Jewish literature as a historical and cultural phenomenon, from a wide array of critical perspectives. Many essays focus on significant social and political events that affected the relationship between Germans and Jews; others concentrate on a particular genre, author, group of writers, cultural debate, or literary movement. Entries include an account of the Crusades in 1096, a treatment of Jewish mysticism in the Renaissance, a unique seventeenth-century memoir by a woman, the description of a meeting between Heinrich Heine and Karl Marx in 1843, and discussions of works by such twentieth-century luminaries as Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, Joseph Roth, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti, Hermann Broch, Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, and Peter Weiss.… (more)

Language

Physical description

xxxiv, 864 p.; 26 cm

ISBN

0300068247 / 9780300068245

Local notes

Donated by : Veronica and Ben Salinger

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