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Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Unpublished Letters of Richard Beer-Hofmann to Hermann Bahr
Author: Melancholy Pride
Author: Mark H. GelberPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311095608X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This study focuses on the emergence of a modern Jewish national literature and culture within the parameters of Zionism in Vienna and Berlin at the turn of the last century. Prominent figures associated with early modern Zionism, including Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, and Martin Buber, were also writers and literary or cultural icons within the Central European, Germanic-Austrian cultural environment of the fin-de-siècle. More important, Cultural Zionism promoted young Jewish literary and artistic talent as part of its ideology of a modern Jewish Renaissance. A corpus of German-language Jewish-national poetry and literature, as well as mechanisms for its dissemination and reception, developed rapidly. Most of this literary and cultural production has been forgotten or suppressed. Productive, if often unlikely, partnerships between Jewish national poets and artists and Central European cultural figures and movements were forged in this context. Facets of Central European cultural life, which were somewhat oppositional to traditional Jewish culture were received, absorbed, or transformed within Cultural Zionism. For example, the relationship of German racialist thought and German-nationalist fraternity life to early Jewish-national expression is a largely unknown chapter of early Jewish-national cultural history. The same can be said for the impact of feminist, counter-culture, and bohemian circles in Berlin on Cultural Zionist personalities and their work.
Identity and Ethos
Author: Solomon LiptzinPublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The essays collected in this Festschrift have been written by colleagues, friends, students, and admirers of Sol Liptzin, to be presented to him on the occasion of his 85th birthday. The essays are concerned with topics within the domains of literary and cultural study pursued and enriched by Sol Liptzin himself: (I) Yiddish literature, (II) German-Jewish studies and German literature proper, (III) English-German literary relations, (IV) Jews and Jewish literature in America, (V) Biblical themes in world literature and Jewish cultural history. The partial, selected bibliography of his publications included in this volume indicates, in a complementary way, the scope and energy of his engaging and lively mind.
Twentieth-century German Dramatists, 1889-1918
Author: Wolfgang ElfePublisher:
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Category : Dramatists, German
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Profiles nearly thirty German playwrights from the period 1889-1918, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.
The Letters of Arthur Schnitzler to Hermann Bahr
Author: Arthur SchnitzlerPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Austrian
Languages : de
Pages : 208
Book Description
Contemporary Authors
Author: Richard Beer-Hofmann, His Life and Work
Author: Esther N. ElstunPublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A thorough account of Richard Beer Hofmann's profound influence on Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arnold Schnitzler, and other turn-of-the-century Viennese writers' lives and work has not appeared in nearly fifty years. This book fills that lacuna, placing Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945), the central member of the literary ground known as "Young Vienna," in the context of his time and furnishing a fine critical discussion of all his major works. Beer-Hofmann's metamorphosis from a "'decadent young dandy and aesthete" into an artist "whose Jewishness was central to his life and thought" is described in the biographical first chapter; this growth provides the unifying thread for subsequent chapters, which focus on his prose and dramatic works. This edition is not for Germanists alone; its ample quotations followed by English translations finally make Beer-Hofmann's work accessible to readers who have little or no command of the German language.
Year Book
Author: Jüdische Aspekte Jung-Wiens im Kulturkontext des "Fin de siècle"
Author: Sarah Fraiman-MorrisPublisher: de Gruyter
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit der jüdischen Identität der österreichischen Dichter und Denker Arthur Schnitzler, Stefan Zweig, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Karl Kraus und Theodor Herzl im Kulturkontext und in der Kulturkrise des österreichischen Fin de Siècle. Sie schöpften alle mehr oder weniger bewusst aus einem reichen jüdischen Erbe, von dem sie sich entweder absetzten (Kraus, Zweig) oder dem sie sich wieder zuwandten (Beer-Hofmann, Herzl). Die dynamischen Spannungen, welche sich aus den Wechselwirkungen zwischen dem Absorbieren österreichischer Kultur einerseits und dem Geprägtsein von jahrhundertelanger jüdischer Tradition und deren Werten andererseits ergeben, finden ihren Ausdruck in unterschiedlichen Reaktionen der paradigmatisch für alle europäischen Juden stehenden hier untersuchten österreichisch-jüdischen Persönlichkeiten auf die Kultur und Kulturkrise des Fin de Siècle.
Contemporary Authors
Author: Terrie M. RooneyPublisher: Contemporary Authors
ISBN: 9780787619930
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R).