64Galicia As a Literary Idea
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
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In the decades following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the former province of Galicia inspired the literary imagination of two German-language natives of this region, Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenstern. Galicia as a Literary Idea explores what their engagement with Galicia means for modern Jewish culture, history, and memory.
For Roth and Morgenstern, Galicia encapsulates the rich interplay between contemporary developments – including urbanization, secularization, embourgeoisement, political self-determination, and new technologies – and traditional Jewish life in Eastern European villages and shtetls, characterized by tight-knit families and communities, religious observance and ritual, Yiddish language and culture, and Hasidic belief systems. Despite the tensions between these elements, this book presents them as a complex network rather than a battle between old and new, east and west, or tradition and modernity. German and Jewish studies scholar, Kata Gellen, also traces the shifting attachments of Galician Jews to German, a language that symbolized emancipation, culture, empire, and, ultimately, disillusionment and persecution.
Through original readings of well-known and neglected works by Roth and Morgenstern, Gellen shows how the literary idea of Galicia is shaped by continuous struggle and emergent hope, whether as earthly possibility or redemptive promise. This book thereby uncovers the complex relationship between center and periphery in Jewish modernity and reanimates a dimension of modern Jewish literary history that has been obscured by the dark shadow of the Holocaust.
Kata Gellen is associate professor of German studies and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Ongoing Struggle and Emergent Hope: Galicia as a Literary Idea
Part 1: Galician Origins
Chapter 1. Paternal Inheritance: Soma Morgenstern’s Youth in Galicia
Chapter 2. Joseph Roth’s Galician Childhoods
Part 2: Galician Returns
Chapter 3. Mediating Galicia in Joseph Roth’s Job
Chapter 4. Humor and Difference in Soma Morgenstern’s The Son of the Lost Son
Part 3: Galicia Lost
Chapter 5. Galicia as a Work-in-Progress: Soma Morgenstern’s Sparks in the Abyss
Chapter 6. Improper Burials: The End of Nostalgia in Joseph Roth’s Late Fiction
Part 4: Death in Galicia
Chapter 7. Jewish Suffering and Christian Redemption: The Pogrom in Joseph Roth’s Tarabas
Chapter 8. Grieving Galicia: Purification and Redemption in Soma Morgenstern’s The Third Pillar
Conclusion
Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | German and European StudiesGerman and European Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 1 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-2889-2 / 1487528892 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-2889-8 / 9781487528898 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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