Europäisch-jüdischer Schriftsteller und österreichischer Universalist
Published:
2011
Publisher:
De Gruyter, Berlin
Johann Georg Lughofer On the 70th anniversary of Joseph Roth's death, this volume examines the current relevance of his work. His works and opinions were regarded as being overly oriented towards the past; his leanings towards the monarchy were...
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Johann Georg Lughofer On the 70th anniversary of Joseph Roth's death, this volume examines the current relevance of his work. His works and opinions were regarded as being overly oriented towards the past; his leanings towards the monarchy were mocked, his call to supranational thinking interpreted as a simple response to contemporary events. He was read chiefly as the narrator of the vanished Habsburg empire or of the vanished Eastern European Jewry. Today, at a time that Europe is uniting, one gains a different picture: it no longer seems strange that he regarded ideological commitments as an excessively tight co
Papers presented at an international conference held May 25-27, 2009
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Vorwort; Die Flucht ohne Ende; Zum Judentum; Zwischen Kulturen und Orten; Zwischen den Geschlechtern; Soziales und Geschichtliches; Zur Rezeption und Forschung; Die Autorinnen und Autoren; Personenregister;
