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PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
are pleased to announce a new book by
Helen Ferstenberg
MEDITATIONS ON JEWISH CREATIVE IDENTITY
Representations of the Jewish Artist in the Works of German-Jewish
Writers from Heine to Feuchtwanger
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2004.
229 pp. North American Studies in 19th-Century German Literature. Vol.
34 General Editor: Jeffrey L. Sammons
ISBN 3-03910-152-8 / US-ISBN 0-8204-6962-9 pb.
sFr. 65.00 / EUR* 44.30 / EUR** 41.40 / £ 29.00 / US-$ 40.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany and Austria
** does not include VAT
Through an analysis of representations of Jewish artists in the works
of German-Jewish writers, this book reveals that the issue of a Jewish
creative identity was one of the most explosive aspects of a dual
German-Jewish identity. In the shadow of both a widespread anti-Semitic
stereotype which denied creativity to Jews and also of increasingly
contentious debates in Jewish circles on the proper role of Jewish
artists within German culture, German-Jewish writers who portrayed
Jewish artists in their works were forced to grapple with some of the
most contentious questions of their day: the relative importance of
German and Jewish allegiance; the issue of Jewish distinctiveness or
its opposite expressed in style, language, and theme; and the viability
of a «Jewish» participation in German culture. Existing studies
sometimes posit Jewish self-hatred or blind attachment to German
culture and Enlightenment ideals as characteristic of a broad spectrum
of German-Jewish writers. In contrast, this book demonstrates how many
German-Jewish writers possessed a profound awareness of cultural
conditions and a conscientious desire to integrate the complex demands
of a dual identity.
Contents: Jewishness, Poesy, and the Artist in the Writings of Heinrich
Heine - Assimilation and the Artist: Berthold Auerbach's and Karl Emil
Franzos's Meditations on Jewish Creative Identity - The Difference of
the Jewish Artist: Arthur Schnitzler and Debates on Jewish Creativity
in the Viennese Fin-de-Siècle - The Artist Beyond German Culture:
Zionist Thought, the Search for an Alternative Jewish Creative
Identity, and the Case of Lion Feuchtwanger.
The Author: Helen Ferstenberg did her undergraduate studies in French
and German at Lancaster University and earned a masters degree in
International Affairs from Columbia University. Subsequently she
studied and taught at Yale University where she received her PhD in
German Literature in 2002.
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