Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology
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Devoted to collecting the finest Jewish writing from around the world, the Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World series consists of anthologies, by country, that are designed to present to the English-speaking world authors and works deserving international consideration. As a series, the books permit a broad examination of the international crosscurrents in Jewish thought and culture. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria presents a gathering of writers from several generations who have published a remarkable range of works in recent decades. The result is a diverse portrait of Jewish experience in Austria since the Second World War. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz has assembled an extraordinary roster of literary talents, ranging from authors born in the early decades of this century to writers born after the Shoah. The volume maps a complex tradition of Jewish discourse marked by a profound awareness of the literary past, by the failure of a long-anticipated Austrian-Jewish symbiosis, and by the unparalleled tragedy of the Shoah. It is a modern tradition that has made an essential contribution to Austria’s literary history while remaining, in Lorenz’s words, "distinct and unassimilated."
Introductionxi1.The Pre-World War I Generationexcerpt from "M.T.": That Is the Meantime5excerpt from The Secret Heart of the Clock25The New Guy43Aunt Jolesch in Person49The Draped Window61excerpt from It Is Impossible To Speak about It Dispassionately65The Waldheim Case81I Love Living in Austria99Aura and Origin103Antisemitism on the Left - The Respectable Antisemitism1152.The Interwar Generationexcerpt from The Soul Bird135Death Fugue153A Summons to Mistrust159Rahel's Clothes161My Father166To Austria169My Girlfriends170Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?171Bundschuh the War Criminal181The Unknown Nation182excerpt from The Galician Woman189The Story of Lilith and Eve2033.The Generation of Austrofascism, World War II, and the ShoahHalloween and a Ghost209An Admonition211Vienna Neuroses212Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Audience214excerpt from Stein's Paranoia231Prologue to Born-Where: Double Lamb2434.The Post-Shoah Generationexcerpt from Wonderful, Wonderful Times: Shut Out255Film, State, and Society in Eastern and Western Europe - and I273Farewell to Jana Cerna282excerpt from Lover, Traitor: A Jerusalem Story: Farewell to Jerusalem289Youth in Vienna3035.The Generation of the Second Austrian Republicexcerpt from Blissful Times, Brittle World317The Right Nose329Foreigners338From Kreisky to Waldheim: Another Jewish Youth in Vienna349Acknowledgments359
