%0 Book
%A Helga Kraft
%A Dagmar C.G. Lorenz
%D 2021
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T From Fin-de-Siècle to Theresienstadt
%B The Works and Life of the Writer Elsa Porges-Bernstein
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1103971
%X 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.
%K Rosmer, Ernst, Aufsatzsammlung, Bernstein, Holocaust Survivor, Austrian Literature, German Literature, Jewish Writer
%G English