Stefan Zweig - Jüdische Relationen

The discussion of Zweig's Jewish themes and issues reveals varying degrees of intensity and leaves many traces behind. His biography and his literary work are not only connected in a variety of ways with the Jewish milieus of Vienna: Zweig also tries to find it's aesthetic position in dialogue with other Jewish artists and intellectuals in other European cities. In Zweig's literary work we recognize a commute between proximity and distance from Judaism. Jewish figures, themes and motifs play an important role here. In Germanic research, however, the distance branch to Judaism has been emphasized. This volume Stefan Zweig - Jüdische Relationen, which has emerged from an international Stefan Zweig Conference organized in Salzburg in November 2015, brings together a selection of studies on Zweig's confrontation with Judaism. At the center of the systematic and critical discussion of this subject are biographical investigations, such as the illumination of the Jewish aspect in Zweig's friendships to different personalities, and also work studies, such as Jeremiah, Schachnovelle or Die Welt von Gestern, as well as the history of his studies with Yiddish literature. --back cover