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Author Machtans, Karolin.

Title Zwischen Wissenschaft und autobiographischem Projekt, Saul Friedländer und Ruth Klüger / Karolin Machtans ; mit einem Vorwort von Alon Confino
Published Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 291 pages)
Series Conditio Judaica, 0941-5866 ; 73
Conditio Judaica ; 73.
Contents Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Preface -- 1. Einleitung: Zwischen Wissenschaft und autobiographischem Projekt. Saul Friedländer und Ruth Klüger -- 2. Erinnerung -- Identität -- Literatur: Theoretische Grundlagen -- 3. Zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und persönlichem Erinnerungstext: Saul Friedländer -- 4. Zwischen Literaturwissenschaft und autobiographischem Projekt: Ruth Klüger -- 5. Fazit: Zwischen Wissenschaft und autobiographischem Projekt -- Saul Friedländer und Ruth Klüger -- Backmatter
Summary The volume examines the autobiographical texts by Saul Friedländer and Ruth Klüger in the context of their academic work. Both their scholarly and their autobiographical work are subjected to the tension between the opposing poles on the one hand of wishing to approach a reality outside the text and on the other of being aware that every interpretation always depends on the contemporary context and personal background of the interpreter. Thus Friedländer and Klüger approach each other from the two poles of disciplines traditionally opposed to each other - the study of history, directed towards
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-285 and index
Notes In German
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Subject Friedländer, Saul, 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation
Klüger, Ruth, 1931-2020 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Friedländer, Saul, 1932- fast
Klüger, Ruth, 1931-2020 fast
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
Jewish authors -- Biography -- History and criticism
Autobiography -- Jewish authors.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Autobiography -- Jewish authors
Historiography
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783484970991
3484970995
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9783484651739