Literary Heimat: German and Austrian Jewish Writings after the Shoah

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This text is an anthology of German and Austrian Jewish writings, in the original German, from after the Shoah. Selections show representative concerns of contemporary Jewish culture in the German speaking world.

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...a most valuable project. It will provide a much-needed tool to college and university professors who teach courses on minority literature in general; however, most notably Jewish German and Austrian culture. -- Dagmar C.G. Lorenz, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Sonat Hart (Ph.D. King's College, London) has published many articles on 19th and 20th century Jewish history and literature. She is currently president of Koval Distillery in Chicago, where she makes award winning whiskey with her husband. Barbara S. Jurasek is Professor of German at Earlham College in Indiana. She received an M.A. in German Literature and her Ph.D in Applied Linguistics from Ohio State University, and has taught in Germany and Austria. She is the article of several texts and has received the AATG's Outstanding German Educator Award (1998).