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"VIENNA IS DIFFERENT"
Jewish Writers in Austria from the fin de siècle to the Present
Hillary Hope Herzog
ISBN 978-0-85745-181-1 Hb $120.00/£75.00 Published (October 2011)
eISBN 978-0-85745-182-8
ISBN 978-1-78238-049-8 Pb $34.95/£22.00 Not Yet Published (July 2013)
eISBN 978-1-78238-050-4
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2012
“This work is on the cutting edge of renewed interest in Jewish Austria. It is a comprehensive road map of a culture uprooted but replanted and blossoming anew into the twenty-first century. This is recommended reading for the scholar of Austrian literary history.” · Journal of Austrian Studies
“In tracing a tradition of Jewish writing in Vienna from the fin de siècle to the present, Herzog's book forms an important contribution to our understanding of Austrian literature and culture of the twentieth century. By focusing her analyses on the ways in which these writers conceptualized their identities as Jews, Herzog illuminates the complicated, yet continually changing relationships between Jewish writers and the city of Vienna.” · H-Judaic
“…meticulously researched and clearly presented…Each chapter begins with a brief, well-informed overview of the period and the experiences of Jews in Austria during that time…This informative work successfully probes the engagement of an impressive range of writers with both their own self-identifications and Vienna. Sensitive and nuanced, it will serve scholars and others as the go-to guide for exploring issues of Jewishness in Austrian literature.” · Habsburg, H-Net Reviews
“This thoroughly researched, lucid book offers a broad, insightful discussion of a complex subject. Steven is Herzog's immediate scholarly predecessor, yet Herzog goes beyond the excellent work of her predecessors…Her choices of the writings to discuss are thoughtful and sometimes unexpected…Posing challenging questions while keeping the city always in view, Herzog concludes that though this rich tapestry of artists and viewpoints is irreducible, there are similarities and verities to reveal. This is the book's unique contribution. Highly recommended.” · Choice
“[A]n impressive account of the origins and development of what is now a tradition of Jewish writers in Vienna. The author does a very good job of presenting the very large subject she has taken on and of putting the turn-of-the-century writers within a chronological context that brings out how a ‘tradition’ of Jewish writers in Vienna has developed over the last century…This is an impressive contribution, with a welcome approach.” · Steven Beller, Washington D.C.
“[A]n important, extremely well constructed and original inquiry and a major contribution to scholarship on Jewish writing and its authors’ literary reactions to the Austrian capital... In a systematic approach and within the proper historical context Herzog uncovers the panorama of Jewish-Austrian writing with Vienna as its focus…Comprehensive and thorough, it conveys a wealth of information on individual authors, their time, and the changing cultural environment.” · Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, University of Illinois at Chicago
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.
Hillary Hope Herzog is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Kentucky, where she works in twentieth-century German literature, Austrian Studies, and the field of medicine and literature. She is co-editor of Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today (with Todd Herzog and Benjamin Lapp, Berghahn 2008) and the Journal of Austrian Studies.
Series: Volume 12, Austrian and Habsburg Studies
LC: PT3822.H48 2011
BISAC: HIS040000 HISTORY/Europe/Austria & Hungary; HIS022000 HISTORY/Jewish; LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM/GeneralBIC: DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 -; JFSR1 Jewish studiesContents
Introduction
The Historical Continuity of the Viennese Jewish Experience
Chapter 1. The Fin de Siècle
The Jewish Immigrant Experience in Vienna
The Jewish Confrontation with a New Political Climate
Jewish Cultural Responses
Arthur Schnitzler
Adolf Dessauer
Felix Salten
Stefan Zweig
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Karl Kraus
Theodor Herzl
Richard Beer-Hofmann
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Jewish Vienna Between the World Wars
Jewish Identity and World War I
A New Jewish Identity Crisis
Rising Anti-Semitism
The Beginning of the End
Jews and the Anschluss
Jewish Cultural Responses in the Interwar Years
Arthur Schnitzler
Felix Salten
Stefan Zweig
Joseph Roth
Karl Kraus
Hugo Bettauer
Elias Canetti
Veza Canetti
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Jews and the Second Republic
The Immediate Postwar Situation
The Second Republic
Austrian Jews and the Second Republic
Jewish Identity after 1945
Ilse Aichinger
Friedrich Torberg
Hilde Spiel
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Viennese Jews from Waldheim to Haider and Beyond
The Waldheim Affair
Jewish Writers and Vienna after Waldheim
Contemporary Viennese Jewish Writing
Ruth Beckermann
Robert Schindel
Doron Rabinovici
Robert Menasse
Eva Menasse
Elfriede Jelinek
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography