Dieser Band zeigt das komplexe und relativ intensive Verhältnis Stefan Zweigs zum Judentum und zum Zionismus vom Beginn seiner Karriere an. Einige seiner wichtigsten Schriften und auch Teile von bedeutenden Briefwechseln können partiell als Auseinandersetzungen mit Stellungnahmen zu Judentum und Zionismus verstanden werden. Der Band versucht zu zeigen, dass die jüdischen und zionistischen Aspekte seiner Karriere und Schriften ihren gerechtfertigten Platz in der Gesamtinterpretation seines ...

The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical interest in the works of the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who was among the most-read and -acclaimed authors worldwide in the 1920s and1930s but after 1945 fell into critical disfavor and relative obscurity. The resurgence in interest in Zweig and his works is attested to by, among other things, new English translations and editions of his works; a Brazilian motion picture and a best-selling Fren...

The topic of "Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka's works. The present collection of new essays highlights the engagement of lesser knownartists and commentators with Kafka, and represents those who are well known, such as Arendt, Blanchot, Nabokov, and Coetzee, from new perspectives. The eleven essays contained here represent the most recent scholarly engagements with this topic. An essay ...