Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe

Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe and their transmedial representation

The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy. Southeastern Europe is characterized by a high degree of ethnical, religious and cultural diversity. Jews, whether Sephardim, Ashkenazim or Romaniots settling there in different periods experienced divergent life worlds which engendered rich cultural production. Though recent scholarly and popular interest in this heterogeneous region has grown impressively, Jewish cultural production is still an under-researched area. The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy, thus creating a dialogue between Jewish studies, Balkan studies, and current literary and cultural theories.

Auteur
Dr. Alessandro Grazi is a research fellow responsible for the subproject "Papst Pius XII. und getaufte Juden in Brasilien" (EXC 2060 C3-19) of the project "Asking the Pope for Help. Jüdische Opfer des NS-Regimes in den Quellen des Vatikans. Eine Online-Edition". Fani Gargova is an architectural historian and currently postdoctoral Researcher for the interdisciplinary project "Synagogen-Gedenkbuch Hessen" at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Her research interests include synagogue architecture and Jewish spaces, architectural Orientalisms, Byzantinisms, medievalisms, as well as the historiography of art history. Renate Hansen-Kokorus is a retired professor of Slavic literatures and cultures (until 2019) at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Graz (Austria), following positions in Mannheim, Berlin, Waterloo (Can.), Zadar, Frankfurt/M. and Innsbruck. She is co-editor of the journal Anzeiger für Slavische Philologie and editor of the book series Grazer Studien zur Slawistik (Kovac). Her research topics encompass satire and humor, the chronotope of return in South Slavic literatures, identity in literature and film, space, gender and intertextuality. PD Dr. Olaf Terpitz ist Slawist, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler an der Universität Wien. Er befasst sich komparatistisch mit slawisch-jüdischen Begegnungen, Transfer- und Übersetzungsprozessen.

PD Dr. Olaf Terpitz ist Slawist, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler an der Universität Wien. Er befasst sich komparatistisch mit slawisch-jüdischen Begegnungen, Transfer- und Übersetzungsprozessen. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerald Lamprecht leitet das Centrum für Jüdische Studien der Universität Graz. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen auf der jüdischen Regionalgeschichte, der Geschichte des Antisemitismus und der Verfolgung der jüdischen Bevölkerung der Steiermark während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus