Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1: Exile and Erasures
5. The End of Exile? The Metz Contest of 1787 Revisited 11
6. Remembering/Imagining Palestine from Afar: The (Lost) Homeland in Contemporary Palestinian Diaspora Literature 31
7. Part 2: Writing the Homeland
8. Worlds, Words, and Womanhood: Gina Kaus and the Formation of a Spiritual Homeland 59
9. Performing Homeland in Post-Vernacular Times: Dzigan and Shumacher’s Yiddish Theater after the Holocaust 81
10. Part 3: Language in Exile
11. The World as Exile and the Word as Homeland in the Writing of Boris Khazanov 101
12. Uncovering Accent and Belonging in Juan Gelman’s Dibaxu 129
13. Part 4: Multiple Exiles, Contingent Homelands
14. France as Wahlheimat for Two German Jews: Heinrich Heine and Walter Benjamin 153
15. The Girl from the Golden Horn: Kurban Said / Lev Nussinbaum’s Vision of Home and Exile in Interbellum Berlin 183
16. “In der Fremde zu hause”: Contingent Cosmopolitanism and Elective Exile in the Writing of Hans Keilson 205
17. Part 5: Of Other Spaces: Travel and Trauma
18. Israel as a Place of Trauma and Desire in Contemporary German Jewish Literature 233
19. Paper Existences: Passports and Literary Imagination 253
20. Neither Heimat nor Exile: The Perception of Paris as a Historical Blind Spot in Three Israeli Novels 277
21. Notes on Contributors 299
22. Index 303