Language:
German
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Exil
Angaben zur Quelle:
29,2 (2009) 102-110
Keywords:
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses German exile literature during the Nazi regime and postwar research on the subject. Among the 0.5 million German emigrants were 2-3,000 authors and publishers, many of them Jews. Most Jewish writers, especially at the beginning of the exile period, viewed themselves as voluntary, political refugees. However, their works were banned in Germany and their careers depended on foreign publishers. Argues that literary science discovered exile literature only in the 1970s and is tainted by omissions. These include the facts that Jewish cultural life continued to some extent in Germany until 1938; autobiographies were written by Jews hiding in Germany, like Victor Klemperer and Willy Cohn; and focus has been placed on political exile. Literary science has also ignored exile literature written in languages other than German. Emphasizes the loss to German literary life caused by Jewish emigration. Since the Holocaust, German literature has lacked a center and has not been unified.
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