Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
History of European Ideas
Angaben zur Quelle:
20,1-3 (1995) 439-444
Keywords:
Hilsenrath, Edgar.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Holocaust survivors
Abstract:
A paper delivered at a conference held at Aalborg University, Denmark, 1992. Edgar Hilsenrath (b. 1926) is a German Jewish writer, a survivor of the Transnistrian ghetto at Mogilyov-Podolskii. He was raised in Leipzig, until his family emigrated to Romania in 1938, where he became a representative of German culture. After the war he returned to Germany. In the novel, a Nazi mass murderer adopts the identity of one of his Jewish victims (Itzig Finkelstein) after the war in order to avoid punishment, moves to Palestine, and ends his days as an Israeli. With this parable, Hilsenrath validates his own status as a Jewish survivor who has chosen German culture and, at the same time, reclaims his German cultural inheritance taken from all German Jews by the Nazis.
DOI:
10.1016/0191-6599(95)92975-Z
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