<i>Keepers of the Motherland</i> is the first comprehensive study of German and Austrian Jewish women authors. Dagmar Lorenz begins with an examination of the Yiddish author Glikl Hamil, whose works date from the late-seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and proceeds through such contemporary writers as Grete Weil, Katja Behrens, and Ruth Klüger. Along the way she examines an extraordinary range of distinguished authors, including Else Lasker-Schüler, Rosa Luxemburg, Nelly Sachs, and Gertrud Kolmar. Although Lorenz highlights the author’s individualities, she unifies<i> Keepers of the Motherland</i> with sustained attention to the ways in which they all reflect upon their identities as Jews and women. In this spirit Lorenz argues that “the themes and characters as well as the environments evoked in the texts of Jewish women authors writing in German resist patriarchal structures. The term ‘motherland,’ defining the domain of the Jewish woman’s native language, regardless of political or ethnic boundaries, is juxtaposed with the concept ‘fatherland,’ referring to the power structures of the nation or state in which she resides.” Lorenz describes a vital, diverse, and largely dissident literary tradition—a brilliant countertradition, in effect, that has endured in spite of oppression and genocide. Combining careful research with inspired synthesis, Lorenz provides an indispensable work for students of German, Jewish, and women’s writings.

Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers (Texts and Contexts)

Literature & Fiction

Lorenz, Dagmar C. G.

History & Criticism

University Of Nebraska Press

Insiders and Outsiders addresses various aspects of Jewish and Gentile interaction since the development of the German-Jewish literary and cultural identity in the early 19th century. As the essays in the volume demonstrate German identity has been inextricably entangled with the presence of its archetypal "other"-the Jewish minority-since the Enlightenment. The common history of German Jews and Gentiles reveals a pattern of unsuccessful attempts at emancipation and integration, during which Jews were driven out, banned, and redamitted. At the same time, it is a history which brought forth an unprecedented cultural production without which there would be no modern Germany and Austria.This volume highlights the centrality of the Jewish presence in the heart of German and Austrian culture as well as the important role German culture played in Jewish society, examining both the failures and the successes of this tense and troubling relationship.

Insiders and Outsiders: Jewish and Gentile Culture in Germany and Austria

History

Europe

Wayne State Univ Pr

Grillparzer, Dichter des sozialen Konflikts (Literatur und Leben) (German Edition)

Böhlau

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