From Fin-de-Siècle to Theresienstadt
The Works and Life of the Writer Elsa Porges-Bernstein
©2007
Edited Collection
X,
262 Pages
Series:
Austrian Culture, Volume 38
Summary
This critical anthology presents original scholarship and materials about the prominent dramatist and concentration camp memoir writer Elsa Porges-Bernstein (1866-1949). The individual scholarly contributions provide new insights into the issue of multiple identity and allegiance in the first half of the twentieth century. Bernstein was a Germanophile and, according to Nazi ideology, a Jew; she also assumed the traditional roles of mother and housewife; finally, she was a feminist and a socialite related to the Wagner family. The complexity and conflictedness of Elsa Porges-Bernstein appeals to contemporary audiences, as evidenced by the 2002 revival of her play Maria Arndt, in Chicago.
Details
- Pages
- X, 262
- Publication Year
- 2007
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820481807
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Rosmer, Ernst Aufsatzsammlung Bernstein Holocaust Survivor Austrian Literature German Literature Jewish Writer
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2007. X, 262 pp., 1 ill.
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