Feuchtwanger and Judaism: History, Imagination, Exile

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This collection of essays is devoted to the Jewish themes that ran through Lion Feuchtwanger’s life, works and worlds. Beginning with a selection of Feuchtwanger’s unpublished writings, speeches, and interviews, the volume examines the author’s approaches to Jewish history, Zionism, Judaism’s relationship to early Christianity and to eastern religions, and Jewish identity through his works, above all his historical fiction. Essays also trace translations of his works into English and Russian, and the meaning of his writing for various communities of Jewish and non-Jewish readers in Britain, North America, and the Soviet Union. A final section frames the issues around Feuchtwanger and Jewishness more broadly by considering the condition of exile and expanding the focus to communities of émigré writers and political figures in North America and beyond. Cover Contents List of Figures Introduction (Paul Lerner and Frank Stern) Part I Documents: Feuchtwanger on Judaism, Jewish History, and Jewish Identity Part II Jewish Pasts, Jewish Futures 1 Lion Feuchtwanger’s Jewish Historical Consciousness in America (Margrit Frölich) 2 Rethinking Jewishness in Dark Times: Feuchtwanger and Arnold Zweig on Judaism, Zionism, and History (Paul Lerner) 3 Frühes Christentum in Lion Feuchtwangers Josephus-Trilogie (Detlef Blasche) 4 Historical, Political, and Metaphysical Aspects of the East in Feuchtwanger’s Der falsche Nero (Sebastian Musch) 5 Caught between Cultures: Lion Feuchtwanger’s Flavius Josephus (Adrian Feuchtwanger) Part III Feuchtwanger in Translation: The Literary Imagination Abroad 6 Jud Süß in English Translation (Ian Wallace) 7 The Soviet Jewish Scripture: Lion Feuchtwanger and the Soviet Jewish Bookshelf (Marat Grinberg) 8 Lion Feuchtwanger and the Question of Jewish Identity in Stalinist Russia (Anne Hartmann) Part IV Feuchtwanger and Friends: Exile, Identity, and Religion 9 „Umwerthung aller Werthe“? Heinrich Mann, Das Zwanzigste Jahrhundert und das Judentum (Michaela Enderle-Ristori) 10 Listening in the Waiting Room: Feuchtwanger on the Acoustics of Exile (Sean Nye) 11 Aufbau: The Bridge between America and Europe during Lion Feuchtwanger’s Years in Exile (Marje Schuetze-Coburn) 12 Anna Seghers and Judaism (Birgit Maier-Katkin) Index