Writer on the run

German-Jewish Identity and the Experience of Exile in the Life and Work of Henry William Katz

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• Ena Pedersen

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• 197 Seiten
• 7 Lesestunden

• Lehrbücher
• Universitätslehrbücher

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Einband: Paperback