Ghetto Writing

• The Frankfurt Judengasse in Eyewitness Accounts from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century - Eoin BourkeEnlightened and Romantic Views of the Ghetto: David Frieländer versus Heinrich Heine - Ritchie RobertsonReclaiming the Location: Leopold Kompert's Ghetto Fiction in Post-Colonial Perspective - Florian KrobbGerman Versus Jargon: Language and Jewish Identity in German Ghetto Writing - Gabriele GlasenappEastern Jews and the Sociology of Nationalism - Chris ThornhillPogroms in Literary Representation - Joachim BeugPhilo-Simetic Tendencies in Wilhelm Jensen's Historical Novel Die Juden von Cölln - Joerg ThuneckeViews from fin-de-Siécle Vienna: Zionist Images of Eastern Jews in Herzl's Die Welt - Paul E. KerryThe Construction of the Eastern Jewry in Joseph Roth's Juden auf Wanderschaft - David HorrocksFrom Ghetto to Nation: Hofmannsthal's Poetics of Assimilation - Michael KanePersecution, Exile, and the Mental Ghetto in Henry William Katz's Novel Die Fischmanns - Ena PedersenThe Shtetl's Curiosity and Style: Alexander Granach's Autobiographical Novel Da ghet ein Mensch - Michael SchmidtEdgar Hilsenrath's Poetics of Insignificance and the Tradition of Humour in German-Jewish Ghetto Writing - Anne Fuchs"Beyond the Jewish Ghetto: The Ghetto in Modern Punk and Rap Culture" by Frank Möbus and Martin B. Münch

A scintillating glimpse of a literary treasure trove.' CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS 'Should be of much use to those who study or teach German-Jewish literary and cultural relations.' GERMAN QUARTERLY ' The publication is of interest as in introduction into the material not only for the Germanist but also for the layperson.' ASCHKENAS 'The great breadth of this collection of essays makes it especially valuable.' GERMANISTIK 'This volume is bound to be of great interest to anyone interested in the works that chronicle the journey of the Yiddish speakers of Central and Eastern Europe from medieval ghettos to the attempted assimilation into the German cultural world.