Forms of exile in Jewish literature and thought : twentieth-century Central Europe and movement to America /
"Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels-from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth century who are not usually connected, including Kafka, Kraus, Levi, Lust...
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Academic Studies Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A general history of concepts of exile
- Exile as expulsion and wandering : Joseph Roth, Sholem Aleichem, Stefan Zweig
- Exile as aesthetic revolt and an inward turn : Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch
- Exile as social renewal : Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau
- Exile as resistance and a moral stance : Karl Kraus, Arthur Schnitzler
- Exile as gender marginalization and the independence of the femme fatale : Alma Mahler
- Exile as an escape from patriarchal oppression : Franz Werfel
- Exile as anxiety and involuntary memory : Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Bruno Schulz
- Exile as doom and revenge : Hermann Ungar
- Exile as a loss of identity : Saul Friedländer
- Exile as abandonment : Peter Weiss
- Exile as bearing witness : Elie Wiesel
- Exile as dehumanization : Primo Levi
- Exile as an awakening of consciousness : Jiří Weil, Ladislav Fuks, Arnošt Lustig
- Exile as a feeling of meaninglessness : Egon Hostovský
- Exile as transformation and a will to meaning : Viktor Frankl, Simon Wiesenthal.