The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century
Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century
1st Edition
Published on 22. August 2022
VIII, 190 pages
978-3-11-079323-9 (ISBN)
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This volume honors the memory of Ruth Klüger by assessing critically her writings and career. Taking her writings as a point of departure, it includes contributions in fields and from perspectives which her writings helped to bring into focus acutely: the future of Holocaust memory and the future of the concentration camps, Holocaust museums and memorials, poetry during and after the Shoah, and critique of the memory culture of the Shoah.
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction - The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century
- Poetry and Naming in Ruth Klüger's Works and Life
- Spannung: Remarks on a Stylistic Principle in Ruth Klüger's Writing
- Speaking with Germans: Ruth Klüger and the "Restitution of Speech between Germans and Jews"
- Writing Auschwitz: Jean Améry, Imre Kertész, and Ruth Klüger
- ". . . but the dead set us certain tasks, don't they?" Ruth Klüger and the Jewish Tradition on Women Saying Kaddish
- Ruth Klüger, Judaism, and Zionism: An American Perspective
- "Ver zenen mir?" Children's Voices in the Poetry of the Shoah
- "Looking into a Mirror Instead of Reality." Ruth Klüger and the Problem of Holocaust Tourism
- Threads Yet to Be Spun: A China Angle on Memory and Ghosts in the Poetry of Ruth Klüger
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
