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- Title
Herbert A. Strauss's Über dem Abgrund Inquiries into the History, Narratology, and Poetics of a Jewish Historian's Autobiography.
- Authors
Bronn, Vera
- Abstract
This article discusses Herbert A. Strauss's Über dem Abgrund / In the Eye of the Storm (1997/1999). Strauss's book is one of the numerous autobiographies published by Jewish historians forced to escape from Europe during the Second World War. By way of literary analysis, a crisis of autobiographical writing and narration is diagnosed, which corresponds with the manifold layers of crisis narrated in the text. These crises also correspond with Strauss's historiographical approach. Such literary analysis therefore outlines the relevance of further inquiries into 20th century Jewish historians' autobiographies for the history and theory of Jewish historiography.
- Subjects
STRAUSS, Herbert A.; EYE of the Storm, The (Book : White); AUTOBIOGRAPHY; NARRATOLOGY; JEWISH historians
- Publication
Naharaim -- Journal of German -- Jewish Literature & Cultural History / Zeitschrift für Deutsch -- jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte, 2014, Vol 8, Issue 1, p142
- ISSN
1862-9148
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/naha-2014-0001