Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers
When Paul Celan was charged with plagiarism in 1960, the ensuing public debate in West Germany threw the poet into a major personal crisis even though most German critics immediately came to his defense. This crisis coincided with a transformative moment in the history of Holocaust remembrance, its first generational reimagining in the wake of a number of highly publicized criminal trials. Words from Abroad takes its lead from this disjunction between public ritual and private crisis to chart...
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Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust.
Introduction : trauma and displacement11The inability to return : German Jewish intellectuals after the Holocaust212Peter Weiss's skeptical cosmopolitanism553Nelly Sachs and the myth of the "German-Jewish symbiosis"954Paul Celan's revisiting of Eastern Europe131Conclusion : toward the possibility of a diasporic community173
