Insiders and outsiders : Jewish and Gentile culture in Germany and Austria / edited by Dagmar C.G. Lorenz and Gabriele Weinberger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historical perspectives : emancipation and assimilation -- Chicken soup, or the penalties for sounding too Jewish / Sander L. Gilman -- Residues of otherness : on Jewish emancipation during the age of German enlightenment / Barbara Fischer -- The wandering Jew's Rhine journey : Heine's Lorelei / Jost Hermand -- Jews and anti-semitism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna / Egon Schwarz -- Historical visions : Anna Seghers on the revolution in Haiti / Sima Kappeler -- Jean Améry and Austria / Ruth Beckermann -- Jewish languages and discourses -- Structure, standardization, and diglossia : the case of Courland Yiddish / Neil G. Jacobs -- Alsatian Yiddish Theater at the turn of the century / Astrid Starck -- The debate about Hebrew, in German : the Kulturfrage in the Zionist Congresses, 1897-1914 / Michael Berkowitz -- Babylon or Jerusalem : Berlin as center of Jewish modernism in the 1920's / Delphine Bechtel -- Authors of German language in Israel / Margarita Pazi -- Nationalism, symbiosis, and anti-semitism. Thomas Mann's Wällsungenblut in the context of the intermarriage debate and the "Jewish Question" / Alan Levenson -- The negative German-Jewish symbiosis / Jack Zipes -- Historical consciousness and Jewish identity : Stefan Zweig and Wilhelm Speyer on the way to themselves / Luke Springman -- Bezwingt des Herzens Bitterkeit : Hilde Burger's Return from "Paradise" / Roslyn Abt Schindler -- The legacy of the holocaust -- "You who live safe in your warm houses" : your role in the production of holocaust testimony / Irene Kacandes -- Social Darwinism and Edgar Hilsenrath's ghetto novel Nacht / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Politics to pulp a novel : the fate of the first edition of Edgar Hilsenrath's novel Nacht / Susann Moeller -- The case of Jakob Littner : authors, publishers, and Jewish history in unified Germany / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- The glory of Austrian resistance and the forgotten Jews / Ruth Beckermann -- Gender and ethnicity in films of the 1980's. Ethnicity, sexuality, and politics in István Szabó's Colonel Redl and Mephisto / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Rosa von Praunheim's celebration of the victim as survivor : Jews and gays in Anita, Dances of Vice / Gabriele Weinberger -- The tenuous continuity : contemporary German Jewish culture -- The legacy of Jewish Vienna / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Beyond the bridges / Ruth Beckermann -- Identity problems of postwar generation Jews in Germany : a historical perspective / Lea Fleischmann -- Lea Fleischmann and Wolf Biermann : like strangers in their own house / Peter Werres -- Barbara Honigmann : a preliminary assessment / Guy Stern -- Conclusion : The New Germany and the future of a negative symbiosis / Gabriele Weinberger.