Christian author, Jewish book? Methods and sources in Thomas Mann's 'Joseph.'

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Thomas Mann uses midrashic techniques in his Bible commentary 'Joseph und seine Bruder', a novel celebrating German-Jewish symbiosis. Although raised as a Lutheran himself, Mann retells the story of Genesis where Christianity and Jewish religion coexist. Joseph, the perpetual exile, bears some semblance to Mann who also lived exiled in California by the time the novel is written.

Analysis, Mann, Thomas (American writer), Midrash, Bible. O.T. Genesis (Sacred work)

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America and the newest Jewish writing in German

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The legitimacy of Daniel Goldhagen, an American Jew, writing about the Holocaust in his "Hitler's Willing Executioners" is questioned. The writing of three European Jews, Doron Rabinovici, Daniel Ganzfried, and Benjamin Stein is analyzed in terms of various cultural factors such as nationality, race, and the persistence of European anti-Semitism.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Public opinion, Hitler's Willing Executioners (Book), Goldhagen, Daniel, Rabinovici, Doron, Ganzfried, Daniel, Stein, Benjamin

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Germans and Jews beyond journalism: Essayism and Jewish identity in the writings of Karl Kraus

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The journalistic writings of Karl Kraus can be interpreted as a medium to re-invent the Austrian Jew in Vienna. Jewish identity as portrayed in his essays appears less controversial than Kraus' famous proclamations, thus allowing both anti-semitic and superbly Jewish tendencies.

Standards, Jews, Literature, Jewish identity, Jews, Austrian, Austrian Jews, Minority journalists, Kraus, Karl

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