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Author Reiter, Andrea

Title Contemporary Jewish Writing : Austria After Waldheim
Published New York : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge Studies in Religion
Routledge studies in religion.
Contents Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Foreword; Introduction; 1 The Impact of Waldheim; 2 Jewish Places; 3 Simulation Spaces-Performing the Jew in the Text; 4 Conclusions-The Chutzpah of Austrian Jews; Notes; References; Index
Summary This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication formats over the last 25 years. Beginning with the Waldheim affair and the rhetorical response by the three most prominent members of the survivor generation (Leon Zelman, Simon Wiesenthal and Bruno Kreisky) author Andrea Reiter sets a complicated standard for 'who is Jewish' and what constitutes a 'Jewish response.' She reformulates the concepts of religious and secular Jewish cultural expression, cutting across gender and Holocaust studies. The work
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-231) and index
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Subject Jewish literature -- Austria -- History and criticism
Jewish literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Jewish authors -- Austria -- Biography
Authors, Austrian -- 21st century -- Political and social views
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
Jews -- Austria -- Intellectual life
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Authors, Austrian -- Political and social views
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
Jewish authors
Jewish literature
Jews -- Intellectual life
Psychological aspects
Literatur
Juden
Austria
Österreich
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135114725
1135114722
1306132231
9781306132237
020307467X (electronic bk.)
9780203074671 (electronic bk.)