Language and Culture: A Transcending Bond : Essays and Memoirs by American Germanists of Austro-Jewish Descent - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0820419931 ISBN 13 : 9780820419930

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1994

Synopsis

In March 1938, Hitler easily moved his grand design by «annexing» Austria. This «bloodless» coup introduces one of history's most extravagant bloodlettings, the systematic extirpation of, among others, nearly the entirety of central and western Europe's Jewish population. Literally within moments of this Annexation, the contributors of this volume began sampling a foretaste of the horrors to come. Unlike most of those close to them, these lucky ones survived, escaping into a life of exile which eventually brought them, ironically, to the halls and classrooms of American university German departments. Here they have sought to make sense of the Holocaust and to contribute to the intellectual life of both adopted and lost homelands. The essays of this volume chronicle, in classically undramatic scholarly prose, the often terrifying dramatic events of their half-century hegira.

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À propos de l'auteur

The Editors: Dr. Susan E. Cernyak-Spatz earned her Ph.D. at the University of Kansas in 1972. Currently, she is Professor of Germanistik and Holocaust Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Previous publications include German Holocaust Literature (Peter Lang, 1985) and Norbert Troller (1991).
Dr. Charles S. Merrill earned his Ph.D. at the University of Texas-Austin in 1972. He is Professor of Germanistik at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Dr. Merrill has written for several publications on modern German literature as well as translations of contemporary German short prose and lyrics, including his own.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820419931
• ISBN 13: 9780820419930
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Éditeur: Cernyak-Spatz Susan E., Merrill Charles S.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible