Writer on the Run: German Jewish Identity and the Experience of Exile in the Life and Work of Henry William Katz
Writer on the Run: German Jewish Identity and the Experience of Exile in the Life and Work of Henry William Katz By Ena Pedersen
2001 | 197 Pages | ISBN: 3484651334 | PDF | 13 MB
2001 | 197 Pages | ISBN: 3484651334 | PDF | 13 MB
This is the first academic treatment of the life and work of Henry William Katz (1906-1992) who has been forgotten by scholars and critics for fifty years although his first novel won him the Heinrich-Heine-Prize in exile in 1937. From a combined literary, historical, biographical and sociological perspective, Ena Pedersen analyses Katz's depiction on the Eastern European Jews in Galicia, Weimar Germany and in exile, focusing on the problems of anti-Semitism, assimilation, German-Jewish symbiosis, and Jewish identity. The book further provides a first biography of Katz and places him in the context of German exile literature through comparisons with contemporary Jewish and non-Jewish writers in exile.