Overview
Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and exclusion, feeling "unheimlich heimisch" (eerily at home) in Vienna.
- | Author: Hillary Hope Herzog
- | Publisher: Berghahn Books
- | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
- | Number of Pages: 298 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0857451812
- | ISBN-13: 9780857451811
