Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers

by Dagmar C.G. Lorenz

Keepers of the Motherland is the first comprehensive study of German and Austrian Jewish women authors. Dagmar Lorenz begins with an examination of the Yiddish author Glikl Hamil, whose works date from the late-seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and proceeds through such contemporary writers as Grete Weil, Katja Behrens, and Ruth Kl ger. Along the way she examines an extraordinary range of distinguished authors, including Else Lasker-Sch...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803229178
• ISBN13: 9780803229174
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 404 Pages