Screen LibraryWriter on the run : German-Jewish identity and the experience of exile in the life and work of Henry William Katz /
This is the first academic treatment of the life and work of Henry William Katz (1906-1992) who has been forgotten by scholars and critics for fifty years although his first novel won him the Heinrich-Heine-Prize in exile in 1937. From a combined literary, historical, biographical and sociological p...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
2014. ©2001 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014. |
| Series: |
Conditio judaica ;
Volume 33 |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110965971 |
| Summary: |
This is the first academic treatment of the life and work of Henry William Katz (1906-1992) who has been forgotten by scholars and critics for fifty years although his first novel won him the Heinrich-Heine-Prize in exile in 1937. From a combined literary, historical, biographical and sociological perspective, Ena Pedersen analyses Katz's depiction on the Eastern European Jews in Galicia, Weimar Germany and in exile, focusing on the problems of anti-Semitism, assimilation, German-Jewish symbiosis, and Jewish identity. The book further provides a first biography of Katz and places him in the context of German exile literature through comparisons with contemporary Jewish and non-Jewish writers in exile. |
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1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110965971 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | PT2621 |
| CLC: |
K835.165.6 I516.065 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Henry William Katz: A Tour Through the Twentieth Century -- Chapter II. Katz s Journalism: Spokesman of the Proletariat -- Chapter III. Die Fischmanns: >Man verfolgt nicht nur die Juden aus Strody< -- Chapter IV. Schlo gasse 21: German or Jew? The Question of Identity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |