Vienna Is Different
Author | : Hillary Hope Herzog |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780857451828 |
ISBN-13 | : 0857451820 |
Rating | : 4/5 (820 Downloads) |
Download or read book Vienna Is Different written by Hillary Hope Herzog and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and exclusion, feeling “unheimlich heimisch” (eerily at home) in Vienna.