Der Band bietet Einblicke in neueste literaturwissenschaftliche, editorische und biografische Erkenntnisse der Joseph-Roth-Forschung.
Das Spektrum der Beiträge reicht von einer kritischen ...Auseinandersetzung mit Desideraten in der Editionspraxis über Fragen zur Mobilität und Identität sowie zur europäischen Moderne bis zu biografischen Einsichten. Die Autor:innen beschreiben differenzierte Möglichkeiten der Herangehensweise an unterschiedliche Textsorten und das Leben Joseph Roths im Kontext zeitgenössischer Diskurse über die Großstadt, den Film, das Hotel, den Faschismus, das Judentum und in Bezug auf Erzählformen. Mit Texten von Hans Richard Brittnacher, Armin Eidherr, Iris Hermann, Aneta Jachimowicz, Katarzyna Jaśtal, Maria Kłańska, Bastian Lasse, Heinz Lunzer, Victoria Lunzer-Talos, Rainer-Joachim Siegel.
L’écrivain autrichien Joseph Roth (1894-1939) eut une grande carrière de journaliste avant d’être reconnu comme romancier. Il doit sa renommée auprès de quotidiens allemands comme le Frankfurter ...Zeitung, le Neue Berliner Zeitung ou encore Vorwärts à sa plume de feuilletoniste. Parcourant toute l’Europe pour le compte des rédactions, il rédigea plus de mille articles entre 1919 et 1938. L’Allemagne de la République de Weimar et ses problématiques sociales et politiques sont des sujets privilégiés de Joseph Roth. Les faits de violence politique attirent particulièrement son attention, Roth assistant aux grands procès des années 1920 et décryptant pour ses lecteur·ice·s les enjeux politiques derrière les affaires qu’il suit. Favorable à la démocratie, Joseph Roth pose un regard critique sur les acteurs du système parlementaire de Weimar, les reportages analysés dans cet article rappelant à travers sa plume les défis de la jeune et fragile démocratie allemande.
Joseph Roth's famously belated devotion to the Austro-Hungarian Empire was not linked to its onetime borders, but to its horizons. The borders that Roth believed mattered were not plotted by latitude ...and longitude; they were the horizons visible if one only looked up and over the borders of nations. In the 1927 book-length essay Juden auf Wanderschaft (The Wandering Jews), Roth considers the belief of Eastern European Jews in the supposed advantages of the West.
ABSTRACT
This article investigates portrayals of traditional Judaism and observant Jews in writings by assimilated German‐Jewish authors. It thus explores notions projected onto traditional Jews – ...and particularly the Jewish body – as elements immanent to Jewish cultural production. At the centre of the enquiry are Heinrich Heine's Hebräische Melodien (1851), Otto Weininger's Geschlecht und Charakter (1902) and Joseph Roth's Juden auf Wanderschaft (1927). These writings construct speakers or narrators who endeavour to depart from traditional Judaism while at the same time questioning the feasibility of this effort. Following this dynamic, the article proposes that Anthony Giddens’ notion of self‐identity can elucidate the pre‐occupation with the body in modern German‐Jewish literature. This preoccupation illustrates individuals’ internalisation of social norms as well as their active rewriting of these same norms.
Zusammenfassung
Dieser Artikel untersucht Darstellungen des traditionellen Judentums und von praktizierenden Juden in ausgewählten Schriften assimilierter deutsch‐jüdischer Autoren. Er beschäftigt sich somit mit Projektionen auf traditionelle Juden – insbesondere auf den jüdischen Körper – als ein der jüdischen Kulturproduktion immanentes Phänomen. Im Mittelpunkt der Analyse stehen Heinrich Heines Hebräische Melodien (1851), Otto Weiningers Geschlecht und Charakter (1902) und Joseph Roths Juden auf Wanderschaft (1927). Diese Texte konstruieren Sprecher oder Erzähler, die sich bemühen, sich vom traditionellen Judentum zu distanzieren, stellen aber zugleich das Gelingen dieser Bemühungen in Frage. Mit Bezugnahme auf diese Dynamik wird hier argumentiert, dass Giddens’ Begriff der ‘Self‐Identityʼ die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Körper in der modernen deutsch‐jüdischen Literatur verdeutlichen kann. Diese Auseinandersetzung erläutert die Verinnerlichung sozialer Normen ebenso wie deren aktives Umschreiben durch die Autoren.
The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works by Rares Piloiu fills an important gap in Roth scholarship, placing Roth’s major works of fiction for the first time ...in the context of a generational interest in religious redemption among the Jewish intellectuals of Central Europe. In it, Piloiu argues that Roth’s challenging, often contradictory and ambivalent literary output is the result of an attempt to recast moral, political, and historical realities of an empirically observable world in a new, religiously transfigured reality through the medium of literature. This diegetic recasting of phenomenological encounters with the real is an expression of Roth’s belief that, since the self and the world are in a continuing state of crisis, issuing from their separation in modernity, a restoration of their unity is necessary to redeem the historical existence of individuals and communities alike. Piloiu notes, however, that Roth’s enterprise in this is not unique to his work, but rather is shared by an entire generation of Central European Jewish intellectuals. This generation, disillusioned by modernity’s excessive secularism, rationalism, and nationalism, sought a radical solution in the revival of mystical religious traditions—above all, in the Judaic idea of messianic redemption. Their use of the Chasidic notion of redemption was highly original in that it stripped the notion of its original theological meaning and applied it to the secular experience of reality. As a result, Roth’s quest for redemption is a quest for a salvation of the individual not outside, but within, history.
Joseph Roth's novella Der Leviathan (1934) about the coral merchant Nissen Piczenik has been understood as an allegory of the conditions of literature in a modern capitalist market, and most readings ...focus on the eponymous mythical creature of the Leviathan. This study instead explores poetical implications of Piczenik's artisanal practice and material consciousness. Using Benjamin's conception of storytelling as a form of craft, the article sheds light on how the depiction of artisanal practice and sensibility can be understood in terms of literary self‐reflection. It further analyzes passages in which storytelling occurs, focusing on the storytellers and on the heterotopical spaces in which stories are exchanged. This results in a re‐evaluation of the novella and its ending, which in this reading depicts the deterritorialization of the storytelling craftsman while simultaneously staging—and inviting readers to take part in—a scene of storytelling.
In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I.
The notion that in previous centuries Jews were considered to be black, or seen as blacks, has gained broad acceptance in scholarly discourse on the Jewish body since the early 1990s. The present ...article considers the notion analytically and then examines some of the evidence provided to support it. Much of this evidence does not stand critical examination. Therefore, arguably, the notion of Jewish blackness should be reconsidered.
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