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Trauma and Distortion: Holocaust Fiction and the Ban on Jewish Memory in Hungary
Author(s): Ozsváth, Zsuzsanna
Editor(s): Braham, Randolph L.; Chamberlin, Brewster S.
Date: 2006
Topics: Post-1989, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory, Holocaust Commemoration, Fiction
Jewish Literary Renaissance in Post-Communist Hungary
Author(s): Saunders, Ivan
Editor(s): Braham, Randolph L.; Chamberlin, Brewster S.
Date: 2006
Topics: Post-1989, Fiction, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Jewish Books
“Are you Protestant Jews or Roman Catholic Jews?” Literary Representations of Being Jewish in Ireland
Author(s): Hezser, Catherine
Date: 2005
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Literature, Jewish Culture, Jewish Identity, Fiction, Jewish Books
Förintelselitteraturen Och Andra Generationens Överlevande
Translated Title: Holocaust Literature and Second-Generation Survivors
Author(s): Ohlsson, Anders
Date: 2000
Topics: Holocaust Survivors: Children of, Holocaust Survivors, Literature, Fiction, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: This article deals with Swedish Holocaust literature by and about the second-generation witnesses, e.g. the children of survivors. It focuses on three novels: Suzanne Gottfarb’s Systrarna Blaumans hemlighet [“The Secret of the Blauman Sisters”] (1987) and Susanne Levin’s Leva vidare [“Live on”] (1994) and Som min egen [“As my own”] (1996). The Holocaust is an integral part of the protagonists’ life and identity, although he or she has not personally experienced the event and in the article I examine three aspects of the conditions of life for the second-generation survivors. Firstly, their search for knowledge about their parents’ experiences. Secondly, the burden of this generation to carry and fulfil the expectations of their parents and thirdly their struggle with identity in a multi-cultural society, where identity not only stems from heritage.
‘Becoming English’: assimilation and its discontents in contemporary British-Jewish literature
Author(s): Vice, Sue
Date: 2013
Topics: Literature, Fiction, Television, Assimilation, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Abstract: This article argues that twenty-first century cultural representations of British-Jewish life are, on the one hand, various, popular and successful, and, on the other, defensive and apologetic to the extent that they are liable to offer readers and viewers literal and aesthetic translations of the detail of Jewish culture. It explores the workings of such a process in relation to a variety of recent texts about contemporary and wartime British-Jewish life, including Howard Jacobson’s novel The Finkler Question, Mike Leigh’s play Two Thousand Years, Robert Popper’s television series Friday Night Dinner, and fiction by Andrew Sanger, Naomi Alderman, Charlotte Mendelson and Natasha Solomons.
Antisemitism and Israel in British Jewish fiction: perspectives on Clive Sinclair’s Blood Libels (1985) and Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question (2010)
Author(s): Stähler, Axel
Date: 2013
Topics: Literature, Fiction, Antisemitism, Israel-Diaspora Relations, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Abstract: Recently Howard Jacobson’s Booker Prize winning novel The Finkler Question (2010) and Peter Kosminsky’s controversial TV mini-series The Promise (2011) have forcefully re-introduced the issue of Israel to British Jewish cultural creativity. Both need to be understood not only in the context of contemporary British Jewish cultural creativity but also of the earlier literary engagement with Israel in British Jewish fiction. Focusing in particular on Clive Sinclair’s Blood Libels (1985) and Jacobson’s novel, this article traces notions of Israel in British Jewish fiction since its establishment in 1948 to the present day.
Reality Gaps: Negotiating The Boundaries Of British Jewish Identities In Contemporary Fiction
Author(s): Gilbert, Ruth
Editor(s): Diemling, Maria; Ray, Larry
Date: 2016
Topics: Jewish Identity, Boundaries, Fiction, Jewish Books, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Capturing the Public's Imagination: Publications on Jewish Themes in Slovakia and the Czech Lands, 1989-1995
Author(s): Jelinek, Yeshayahu A.
Date: 1997
Topics: Publishing, Jewish History, Holocaust, Fiction, Literature, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Abstract: Review of post-communist publications on Jewish themes in Czech and Slovak, includes fiction and non-fiction