Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-De-Si�cle to the Present

By Hillary Hope Herzog

Book Overview

Assessing the impact of fin-de-si cle 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782380493
• ISBN13: 9781782380498
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"