Jews in German Literature since 1945: German-Jewish Literature?

This volume contains some 46 essays on various aspects of contemporary German-Jewish literature. The approaches are diverse, reflecting the international origins of the contributors, who are based in seventeen different countries. Holocaust literature is just one theme in this context; others are memory, identity, Christian-Jewish relations, anti-Zionism, la belle juive, and more. Prose, poetry and drama are all represented, and there is a major debate on the controversial attempt to stage Fassbinders quot;Der Mull, die Stadt und der Tod quot; in 1985. The overall approach of the volume is an inclusive one. In his introduction, the editor calls for a reappraisal of the terms of German-Jewish discourse away from the notion of Germans and Jews and towards the idea that both Jews and non-Jews, all of them Germans, have contributed to the corpus of German-Jewish literature.