Trauma and displacement -- The inability to return: German Jewish intellectuals after the Holocaust -- Peter Weiss's skeptical cosmopolitanism -- Nelly Sachs and the myth of the "German-Jewish symbiosis" -- Paul Celan's revisiting of Eastern Europe -- Toward the possibility of a diasporic community
Summary
Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index