Writer on the Run
German-Jewish Identity and the Experience of Exile in the Life and Work of Henry William Katz
1st Edition
Published on 24. July 2014
197 pages
978-3-11-096597-1 (ISBN)
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This is the first academic treatment of the life and work of Henry William Katz (1906-1992) who has been forgotten by scholars and critics for fifty years although his first novel won him the Heinrich-Heine-Prize in exile in 1937. From a combined literary, historical, biographical and sociological perspective, Ena Pedersen analyses Katz's depiction on the Eastern European Jews in Galicia, Weimar Germany and in exile, focusing on the problems of anti-Semitism, assimilation, German-Jewish symbiosis, and Jewish identity. The book further provides a first biography of Katz and places him in the context of German exile literature through comparisons with contemporary Jewish and non-Jewish writers in exile.
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Ena Pedersen
Writer on the Run
German-Jewish Identity and the Experience of Exile in the Life and Work of Henry William Katz
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction. German-Jewish Writers in Exile 1933-1945
- Chapter I. Henry William Katz: A Tour Through the Twentieth Century
- Chapter II. Katz's Journalism: Spokesman of the Proletariat
- a) Political Involvement in the Social Democratic Cause
- b) The Fate of the Proletariat in Short Stories and Reportagen
- c) Anti-Extremist Articles and Poetry
- d) Exile
- e) Conclusion
- Chapter III. Die Fischmanns: &Man verfolgt nicht nur die Juden aus Strody&
- a) Narrative Perspective and Style
- b) The Shtetl
- c) The Jews and the Austrian Authorities
- d) Jewish Identity and Jewish Fate
- e) Assimilation
- f) Die Fischmanns and Exile Writing
- g) Die Fischmanns in Context
- Chapter IV. Schloßgasse 21: German or Jew? The Question of Identity
- a) Narrative Technique and Perspective
- b) A Society in Crisis
- c) The Jewish Response
- d) Schloßgasse 21 in Context
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
