The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century

Published by De Gruyter 2022

The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century

Edited by: Mark H. Gelber

Volume 20 in the series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110793239

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Ruth Klüger (1931 – 2020) passed away on October 5, 2020 in the U.S. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt, she survived Auschwitz and the Shoah together with her mother. After living in Germany for a short time after the War, she immigrated to New York. She was educated in the U.S. and received degrees in English literature as well as her Ph.D. in German literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She taught at several American universities. She has numerous scholarly publications to her credit, mostly in the fields of German and Austrian literary history. She is also recognized as a poet in her own right, an essayist, and a feminist critic. She returned to Europe, where she was a guest professor in Göttingen and Vienna. Her memoir, entitled weiter leben (1992), which she translated and revised in an English parallel-text as Still Alive, was a major bestseller and highly regarded autobiographical account of a Holocaust survivor. It was subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages. It has also generated a vigorous critical discussion in its own right. Ruth Klüger received numerous prestigious literary prizes and other distinctions.

The present volume, The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century, aims to honor her memory by assessing critically her writings and career. Taking her biography and writings as points of departure, the volume includes contributions in fields and from perspectives which her writings helped to bring into focus acutely. In the table of contents are listed the following contributions: Sander L. Gilman, "Poetry and Naming in Ruth Klüger’s Works and Life"; Heinrich Detering, "’Spannung’: Remarks on a Stylistic Principle in Ruth Klüger’s Writing"; Stephan Braese, "Speaking with Germans. Ruth Klüger and the ‘Restitution of Speech between Germans and Jews’"; Irène Heidelberger-Leonard, "Writing Auschwitz: Jean Améry, Imre Kertész, and Ruth Klüger"; Ulrike Offenberg, "Ruth Klüger and the Jewish Tradition on Women Saying Kaddish; Mark H. Gelber, "Ruth Klüger, Judaism, and Zionism: An American Perspective"; Monica Tempian, "Children’s Voices in the Poetry of the Shoah"; Daniel Reynolds, "Ruth Klüger and the Problem of Holocaust Tourism"; Vera Schwarcz, "A China Angle on Memory and Ghosts in the Poetry of Ruth Klüger."

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Mark H. Gelber, Ben Gurion University, Israel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Mark H. Gelber Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction – The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century Mark H. Gelber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Poetry and Naming in Ruth Klüger’s Works and Life Sander L. Gilman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Spannung: Remarks on a Stylistic Principle in Ruth Klüger’s Writing Heinrich Detering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Speaking with Germans: Ruth Klüger and the “Restitution of Speech between Germans and Jews” Stephan Braese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Writing Auschwitz: Jean Améry, Imre Kertész, and Ruth Klüger Irène Heidelberger-Leonard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
“. . . but the dead set us certain tasks, don’t they?” Ruth Klüger and the Jewish Tradition on Women Saying Kaddish Ulrike Offenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Ruth Klüger, Judaism, and Zionism: An American Perspective Mark H. Gelber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
“Ver zenen mir?” Children’s Voices in the Poetry of the Shoah Monica Tempian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
“Looking into a Mirror Instead of Reality.” Ruth Klüger and the Problem of Holocaust Tourism Daniel P. Reynolds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Threads Yet to Be Spun: A China Angle on Memory and Ghosts in the Poetry of Ruth Klüger Vera Schwarcz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Religious Studies, Philosophy, Jewish Studies), Libraries.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 190
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 3
- Tables: 0

eBook

Published: August 22, 2022
ISBN: 9783110793239

Hardcover

Published: August 22, 2022
ISBN: 9783110629699

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Planned Publication: June 17, 2024
ISBN: 9783111518732