11 Behind the Tränenpalast

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I German-Jewish Writing and Culture Today
5. 1 The Monster Returns: Golem Figures in the Writings of Benjamin Stein, Esther Dischereit, and Doron Rabinovici 21
6. 2 Hybridity, Intermarriage, and the (Negative) German-Jewish Symbiosis 34
7. 3 A Political Tevye? Yiddish Literature and the Novels of Stefan Heym 52
8. 4 Anti-Semitism because of Auschwitz: An Introduction to the Works of Henryk M. Broder 67
9. Part II The Case of Austria
10. 5 “What once was, will always be possible” The Echoes of History in Robert Menasse’s Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle 85
11. 6 The Global and the Local in Ruth Beckermann’s Films and Writings 100
12. Part III Transatlantic Relationships
13. 7 The Holocaust Survivor as Germanist: Marcel Reich-Ranicki and Ruth Kluger 113
14. 8 Transatlantic Solitudes: Canadian-Jewish and German-Jewish Writers in Dialogue with Kafka 122
15. 9 A German-Jewish-American Dialogue? Literary Encounters between German Jews and Americans in the 1990s 143
16. Part IV Jewish Writers in Germany and Austria
17. 10 “Attempts to Read the World” An Interview with Writer Barbara Honigmann 157
18. 11 Behind the Tränenpalast 170
19. 12 Germans Are Least Willing to Forgive Those Who Forgive Them: A Case Study of Myself 173
20. 13 Mischmasch or Mélange 183
21. Contributors 185
22. Index 189