Holocaust Migration in German Jewish Literatures

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-009-74845-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Gewicht: 500 g

Analysing the past two decades of literature on Holocaust memory and migration stories, Agnes Mueller engages with writers such as W. G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard, Edgar Hilsenrath, Benjamin Stein, Mirna Funk, Fred Wander, Barbara Honigmann, Julia Franck, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Olga Grjasnowa, and Kat Kaufmann to explore current debates on Israel, the German Democratic Republic, gender, Jewish and Muslim identity, and antisemitism. Her new readings of German-language texts by younger authors present robust challenges to entrenched ideas concerning the singularity of the Holocaust, multidirectional memory, and a range of other memory debates. Jewish identity and Muslim identity are shown in direct conversation with other migrants' experiences, and literature is revealed to be a brave space where Holocaust memory is newly imagined. Mueller's study invites a radically new way to think about the Holocaust and sheds new and valuable light on adjacent contemporary discourses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mueller, Agnes

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – literature matters; 1. Divergent holocaust memories; 2. Jewish voices from East Germany; 3. Judaism and gender: from stereotype to contiguity; 4. German holocaust memory in Israel; 5. Migration and the future of holocaust memory; Coda – brave spaces; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Mueller, Agnes
Agnes Mueller, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, is core faculty of USC's Jewish Studies. She has previously published on Holocaust memory, German Jewish literature, German American relations, and gender. Her 2014 monograph The Inability to Love: Jews, Gender, and America in Recent German Literature was published in German translation in 2017. Most recently, she was the Carol Kahn Strauss Fellow in Jewish Studies at the American Academy Berlin.