Writer on the Run: German-Jewish Identity and the Experience of Exile in the Life and Work of Henry William Katz

by Ena Pedersen

This is the first academic treatment of the life and work of the German-Jewish writer, Henry William Katz (1906-1992), who was exiled from Nazi Germany in 1933. From a combined literary, historical, biographical and sociological perspective, Ena Pedersen analyses Katz's depiction of the Eastern European Jews in Galicia, Weimar Germany and in exile, focusing on the problems of anti-Semitism, assimilation, German-Jewish symbiosis, and Jewish identity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3484651334
• ISBN13: 9783484651333
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary