Vienna Is Different

Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present

von Hillary Hope Herzog

298 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and exclusion, feeling "unheimlich heimisch" (eerily at home) in Vienna.

• Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781782380498
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2013
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books