The Legacy of Ruth Kl?ger and the End of the Auschwitz Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783111518732)

Ruth Kl?ger (1931 - 2020) passed away on October 5, 2020 in the U.S. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt, she survived Auschwitz and the Shoah together with her mother. After living in Germany for a short time after the War, she immigrated to New York. She was educated in the U.S. and received degrees in English literature as well as her Ph.D. in German literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She taught at several American universities. She has numerous scholarly publications to her credit, mostly in the fields of German and Austrian literary history. She is also recognized as a poet in her own right, an essayist, and a feminist critic. She returned to Europe, where she was a guest professor in G?ttingen and Vienna. Her memoir, entitled weiter leben (1992), which she translated and revised in an English parallel-text as Still Alive, was a major bestseller and highly regarded autobiographical account of a Holocaust survivor. It was subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages. It has also generated a vigorous critical discussion in its own right. Ruth Kl?ger received numerous prestigious literary prizes and other distinctions. The present volume, The Legacy of Ruth Kl?ger and the End of the Auschwitz Century, aims to honor her memory by assessing critically her writings and career. Taking her biography and writings as points of departure, the volume includes contributions in fields and from perspectives which her writings helped to bring into focus acutely. In the table of contents are listed the following contributions: Sander L. Gilman, "Poetry and Naming in Ruth Kl?ger's Works and Life"; Heinrich Detering, "'Spannung': Remarks on a Stylistic Principle in Ruth Kl?ger's Writing"; Stephan Braese, "Speaking with Germans. Ruth Kl?ger and the 'Restitution of Speech between Germans and Jews'"; Ir?ne Heidelberger-Leonard, "Writing Auschwitz: Jean Am?ry, Imre Kert?sz, and Ruth Kl?ger"; Ulrike Offenberg, "Ruth Kl?ger and the Jewish Tradition on Women Saying Kaddish; Mark H. Gelber, "Ruth Kl?ger, Judaism, and Zionism: An American Perspective"; Monica Tempian, "Children's Voices in the Poetry of the Shoah"; Daniel Reynolds, "Ruth Kl?ger and the Problem of Holocaust Tourism"; Vera Schwarcz, "A China Angle on Memory and Ghosts in the Poetry of Ruth Kl?ger."

Author: Mark H. Gelber
ISBN-10: 3111518736
ISBN-13: 9783111518732
Publisher: de Gruyter
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2024
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42d