Feuchtwanger and Judaism

Paul Lerner is Professor of History at the University of Southern California specializing in German-Jewish cultural history. He is the author of The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940 and Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890–1930 and the editor of works on Jewish consumer culture, Los Angeles as a site of German-American crossings, and German Jews and gender history. Frank Stern is Professor for Visual and Contemporary Culture at the University of Vienna specializing in German-Jewish, Austrian- Jewish and Israeli cultural history with a focus an cinema. He is the author of The Whitewashing of the Yellow Badge: Antisemitism and Philosemitism in Postwar Germany and Franz Rosenzweig. Denker der Jüdischen Moderne and the editor of Feuchtwanger und Exil and numerous other publications on film and cultural history.

CONTENTS: Paul Lerner/Frank Stern: Introduction – Margrit Frölich: Lion Feuchtwanger’s Jewish Historical Consciousness in America – Paul Lerner: Rethinking Jewishness in Dark Times: Feuchtwanger and Arnold Zweig on Judaism, Zionism, and History – Detlef Blasche: Frühes Christentum in Lion Feuchtwangers Josephus-Trilogie – Sebastian Musch: Historical, Political, and Metaphysical Aspects of the East in Feuchtwanger’s Der falsche Nero – Adrian Feuchtwanger: Caught between Cultures: Lion Feuchtwanger’s Flavius Josephus – Ian Wallace: Jud Süß in English Translation – Marat Grinberg: The Soviet Jewish Scripture: Lion Feuchtwanger and the Soviet Jewish Bookshelf – Anne Hartmann: Lion Feuchtwanger and the Question of Jewish Identity in Stalinist Russia – Michaela Enderle-Ristori: „Umwerthung aller Werthe"? Heinrich Mann, Das Zwanzigste Jahrhundert und das Judentum – Sean Nye: Listening in the Waiting Room: Feuchtwanger on the Acoustics of Exile – Marje Schuetze-Coburn – Aufbau: The Bridge between America and Europe during Lion Feuchtwanger’s Years in Exile – Birgit Maier-Katkin: Anna Seghers and Judaism