Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-225) and index.
The Frankfurt Judengasse in Eyewitness Accounts from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century / Eoin Bourke -- Enlightened and Romantic Views of the Ghetto: David Friedlander versus Heinrich Heine / Ritchie Robertson -- Reclaiming the Location: Leopold Kompert's Ghetto Fiction in Post-Colonial Perspective / Florian Krobb -- German versus Jargon: Language and Jewish Identity in German Ghetto Writing / Gabriele von Glasenapp -- Eastern Jews and the Sociology of Nationalism / Chris Thornhill -- Pogroms in Literary Representation / Joachim Beug -- Philo-Semitic Tendencies in Wilhelm Jensen's Historical Novel Die Juden von Colln / Jorg Thunecke -- Views from Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Zionist Images of Eastern Jews in Herzl's Die Welt / Paul Kerry -- The Construction of Eastern Jewry in Joseph Roth's Juden auf Wanderschaft / David Horrocks -- From Ghetto to Nation: Hofmannsthal's Poetics of Assimilation / Michael Kane -- Persecution, Exile, and the Mental Ghetto in Henry William Katz's Novel Die Fischmanns / Ena Pedersen -- The Shtetl's Curiosity and Style: Alexander Granach's Autobiographical Novel Da geht ein Mensch / Michael Schmidt -- Edgar Hilsenrath's Poetics of Insignificance and the Tradition of Humour in German-Jewish Ghetto Writing / Anne Fuchs -- Beyond the Jewish Ghetto: The Ghetto in Modern Punk and Rap Culture / Frank Mobus and Martin B. Munch