This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it comprises research monographs, collections of essays and annotated editions from the 18th century to the present. The term German-Jewish literature refers to the literary work of Jewish authors writing in German to the extent that Jewish aspects can be identified in these. However, the image of Jews among non-Jewish authors, often determined by anti-Semitism, is also a factor in the history of German-Jewish relations as reflected in literature. This series provides an appropriate forum for research into the whole problematic area.

This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries. The closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature and culture is an integral part of its historical development. Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews, and Jewish authors started writing in German, rather than Yiddish or Hebrew, even when they were articulating Jewish themes. This process is directly connected an historical change in mentality and social factors which led to a gradual opening towards a non-Jewish environment, which in its turn was becoming more open. In the Enlightenment, German society becomes the standard of reference initially for an intellectual elite. Against this background, the term German-Jewish literature refers to the literary work of Jewish authors writing in German to the extent that explicit or implicit Jewish themes, motifs, modes of thought or models can be identified in them.From the beginning of the 19th century at the latest, however, the image of Jews in the work of non-Jewish writers, determined mainly by anti-Semitism, becomes a factor in German-Jewish literature. There is a tension between Jewish writers' authentic reference to Jewish traditions or existence and the anti-Semitic marking and discrimination against everything Jewish which determines the overall development of the history of German-Jewish literature and culture. This series provides an appropriate forum for research into the whole problematic area.

Autorentext
Dr. Hans Otto Horch ist Professor für Deutsch-jüdische Studien am Germanistischen Institut der Universität Aachen.

Inhalt
Inhalt: I.: T. Rübner, Ludwig Strauß - Gestalt und Werk. Biographische Skizzen. - H. Schanze, Ludwig Strauß und sein Nachruhm. Zur Literaturgeschichte eines kleinen Kreises. - H.-P. Bayerdörfer, Wandlungen einer Topographie. Zu den Gedichten von "Land Israel". - D. Herde, Ludwig Strauß und die jiddische Literatur. - P. Schmidt, "Der Hirt von Nickelshusen". - D. Breuer, Zur Poesieauffassung von Ludwig Strauß. - B. Witte, Ludwig Strauß als Germanist. - II.: T. Rübner, Ludwig Strauß - Dichter in zwei Sprachen. - E. Strauß, Erinnerungen an meinen Vater. - W. Jung, Als Europa noch in Aachen lag. Kunst und Kultur in der Kaiserstadt um 1910. - D. Breuer, Aachen-Darstellungen im Werk von Ludwig Strauß. - H.O. Horch/U. Kalkmann, Ludwig Strauß und die Technische Hochschule Aachen. - I. Shedletzky, Fremdes und Eigenes. Zur Position von Ludwig Strauß in den Kontroversen um Assimilation und Judentum in den Jahren 1912-1914. - G. Mattenklott, Ludwig Strauß in den Zwanziger Jahren. - B. Witte, Messianische Gemeinschaft. Friedrich Hölderlin im Werk von Ludwig Strauß. - P. Schmidt, Ludwig Strauß und Gustav Landauer. - R. Bulang, Ludwig Strauß und Albrecht Schaeffer: Umriß einer Freundschaft. - H.-P. Bayerdörfer, Von der Dramaturgie zur Komödie: Ludwig Strauß' "Masken". - R. Faber, Von Aachen nach Jerusalem - und nicht wieder zurück. Der politische Dichter und Essayist Ludwig Strauß. - C. Shoham, Ex Occidente Lux? Ludwig Strauß und die Literaturwissenschaft in Israel. - III.: R. Bulang/H. Erlemann, Strauß-Bibliographie. Werke von Ludwig Strauß. Rezensionen und Forschungsliteratur. - Register der Werke von Ludwig Strauß.