Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Transversal; Zeitschrift für Jüdische Studien
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,2 (2002) 53-79
Keywords:
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Jews in literature
;
Judaism in literature
Abstract:
Surveys the literary treatment of Jews and the Holocaust in East and West Germany and Austria, from the immediate postwar period to the present. Popular non-Jewish writers of the first generation downplayed the Holocaust and tried to exculpate the Germans in language still colored by Nazi ideology. The second generation rebelled against the parents who had burdened them with their own guilt. Describes, also, differing approaches of Jewish writers to the past. For young Jewish writers today, treatment of the Holocaust has given way to dealing with their identity as Jews living in Germany and Austria.
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