Jewish Identities in Contemporary Europe

Andrea Reiter is Professor of German at the University of Southampton, UK. She is the author of Contemporary Jewish Writing: Austria after Waldheim (2013). Her research focuses on contemporary German and Austrian Jewish writers and intellectuals. Lucille Cairns is Professor of French at Durham University, UK. Her work focuses on French women’s writing and filmmaking, male and female homosexuality in French literature and film, and Franco-Jewish literature. She is the author of Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema (2006), Post-War Jewish Women's Writing in French (2011), and Francophone Jewish Writers: Imagining Israel (2015).

Foreword Introduction 1. Negotiating Jewish identity in an asemitic age 2. Standing apart/being a part: Cixous’s fictional Jewish identities 3. Frenchness, Jewishness, and ‘integration’ in Karin Albou’s La Petite Jérusalem 4. ‘Becoming English’: assimilation and its discontents in contemporary British-Jewish literature 5. Antisemitism and Israel in British Jewish fiction: perspectives on Clive Sinclair’s Blood Libels (1985) and Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question (2010) 6. Lost in Third Space? Narrating German-Jewish identity in Maxim Biller’s autobiography Der gebrauchte Jude (2009) 7. The persistence of nostalgia? When Poles miss their Jews and Israelis yearn for Europe 8. Is there an ‘Israeli Diaspora’? Jewish Israelis negotiating national identity between Zionist ideology and diasporic reality 9. Growing up Jewish in Austria: a personal testimony