Making German Jewish Literature Anew

In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional affiliations with places such as France, Russia, or Israel, affords a unique opportunity to analyze the foundational moments of diasporic literature. Making German Jewish Literature Anew is structured around a series of founding gestures: performing authorship, remaking memory, and claiming places. Garloff contends that these founding gestures are literary strategies that reestablish the very possibility of a German Jewish literature several decades after the Holocaust.

Making German Jewish Literature Anew offers fresh interpretations of second-generation authors such as Maxim Biller, Doron Rabinovici, and Barbara Honigmann as well as of third-generation authors, many of whom come from Eastern European and/or mixed-religion backgrounds. These more recent writers include Benjamin Stein, Lena Gorelik, and Katja Petrowskaja. Throughout the book, Garloff asks what exactly marks a given text as Jewish-the author's identity, intended audience, thematic concerns, or stylistic choices-and reflects on existing definitions of Jewish literature.

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Katja Garloff

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In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, **Katja Garloff traces the development of German Jewish literature from 1990 to the present and offers a new theory of Jewish diaspora literature. Whereas earlier studies focused on the second generation of German Jewish writers after the Holocaust, Garloff's analysis extends to third-generation writers, many of whom come from Eastern European or mixed-religion backgrounds. The works of these more recent writers, include Benjamin Stein, Lena Gorelik, Jan Himmelfarb, and Katja Petrowskaja.

Garloff suggests that the emergence of a new German Jewish literature affords a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between literature and the formation of group identity. Throughout the Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Garloff asks what exactly marks a given text as Jewish-the author's identity, intended audience, thematic concerns, or stylistic choices-and reflects on existing definitions of Jewish literature.

Making German Jewish Literature Anew is innovatively structured around a series of founding gestures-performing authorship, remaking memory, and claiming places. Garloff contends that these founding gestures are literary strategies that reestablish the very possibility of a continually reinvented German Jewish literature into the twenty-first century.

Contenu

Introduction
Part I: Performing Authorship
1. Authorial Self-Fashioning in Second-Generation Writers: Maxim Biller, Esther Dischereit, and Barbara Honigmann

2. Playing with Paratext: Benjamin Stein's *Die Leinwand
   *Part II: Remaking Memory
   3. Memory and Mobility: The Novels of Doron Rabinovici
3. Memory and Similarity: Katja Petrowskaja's *Vielleicht Esther
   *Part III: Claiming Places
   5. Returning: Diasporic Place-Making in Barbara Honigmann
4. Transitioning: Migration Narratives in Vladimir Vertlib and Julya Rabinowich
5. Arriving: Arrival Stories in Lena Gorelik, Dmitrij Kapitelman, and Jan Himmelfarb
   Conclusion
   Notes
   Index