ISBN:
9783110965971
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (197 S.)
Edition:
2001
Year of publication:
2001
Series Statement:
Conditio Judaica 33
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Pedersen, Ena Writer on the run
Keywords:
Jewish authors, Exiled Biography
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
Judaism and literature
;
German literature Jewish authors
;
History and criticism
;
Jews in literature
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
Jewish journalists Biography
;
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
;
Katz, H. W. 1906-1992
Abstract:
This is the first academic treatment of the life and work of Henry William Katz (1906-1992) who has been forgotten by scholars and critics for fifty years although his first novel won him the Heinrich-Heine-Prize in exile in 1937. From a combined literary, historical, biographical and sociological perspective, Ena Pedersen analyses Katz's depiction on the Eastern European Jews in Galicia, Weimar Germany and in exile, focusing on the problems of anti-Semitism, assimilation, German-Jewish symbiosis, and Jewish identity. The book further provides a first biography of Katz and places him in the context of German exile literature through comparisons with contemporary Jewish and non-Jewish writers in exile.
DOI:
10.1515/9783110965971
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