256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication formats over the last 25 years. Beginning with the Waldheim affair and the rhetorical response by the three most prominent members of the survivor generation (Leon Zelman, Simon Wiesenthal and Bruno Kreisky) author Andrea Reiter sets a complicated standard... Read more
Introduction 1. The Impact of Waldheim 2. "Jewish Places" 3. Simulation Spaces: Performing the Jew in the Text 4. Conclusions: the Chutzpah of Austrian Jews
Biography
Andrea Reiter is a Reader in German in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton, UK.
"Reiter’s carefully chosen examples and authors are appropriate to the cultural processes they illustrate. In lucid prose, this astonishingly compact book succeeds in presenting an engaging and informative study on a challenging and important topic." – Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, Journal of Austrian Studies
