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In the shadow of the Holocaust : Jewish-Communist writers in East Germany / Thomas C. Fox

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Signatur	VIII.3. Fox 805
Verfasser	Fox, Thomas C.
Titel	In the shadow of the Holocaust : Jewish-Communist writers in East Germany / Thomas C. Fox
Veröffentlichung	Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2022
Umfang / Format	VIII, 201 Seiten ; 24 cm
Anmerkungen	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index
Sprache	Englisch
ISBN	978-1-64014-062-2
Nummer	2021035383 (Sonstige Standardnummer Sekundärform) 23,A03 (Nationalbibliographienummer (NBN)) 1255075309 (DNB-Nummer) 020408546 (Kontrollnumer der nationalen bibliographischen Stelle)
Gesamtwerk	(Dialogue and disjunction)
Person über	Seghers, Anna Heym, Stefan Hermlin, Stephan Edel, Peter Wander, Fred Becker, Jurek
Zusammenfassung	Zusammenfassung: "This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights the conflicted writings of six East German Jewish writers: Anna Seghers (1900-1983), Stefan Heym (1913-2001), Stephan Hermlin (1915-1997), Jurek Becker (1937-1997), Peter Edel (1921-1983), and Fred Wander (1917-2006). All were Holocaust survivors. All lost family members in the Holocaust. All were important writers who played a leading role in East German cultural life, and all were loyal citizens and committed socialists, although their definitions and maneuvers regarding Party loyalty differed greatly. Good soldiers, they viewed their writing as contributing to the social-political revolution taking place in East Germany. Informed by Holocaust and trauma studies, as well as psychology and deconstruction, this study looks for moments when Party discipline falters and other, repressed, thoughts and emotions surface, decentering the works. Some recurring questions addressed include: What is the image of Germans? Do the works evidence revenge fantasies? How does the negotiation of ostensibly mutually exclusive identities play out? Is there acknowledgement of the insufficiency of Communist theory to explain anti-Semitism, as well as recognition of Stalinist or other forms of Communist anti-Semitism? Although these writers ultimately established themselves in East Germany, attaining positions of privilege and even power, their best works nonetheless evince an acute sense of endangerment and vulnerability; they are documents both created and marked by trauma"--(Provided by publisher.)
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