Language:
German
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
58,3 (2006) 243-262
Keywords:
Neumann, Robert,
;
Morgenstern, Soma,
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Bible In literature
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Jewish refugees
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
Discusses Robert Neumann's "An den Wassern von Babylon" (1939), a novel about Jews who suffered from pogroms and discrimination in different diasporas, who wander through the desert in a vain attempt to reach the Promised Land; and Soma Morgenstern's "Die Blutsäule" (1955), in which the survivors of the Holocaust in an eastern Galician town hold a trial of their persecutors at which they testify to what they went through, and are then told by a messenger to leave the continent on which a third of their people were murdered and to set out for the promised homeland. Both novels make use of biblical and traditional Jewish themes: testimony, signs and wonders, and a leader like Moses who gathers and guides the people. Both are forms of modern midrash on exile and the Holocaust.
DOI:
10.1163/157007306777834519
URL:
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