This volume examines the Jewish identity of the Austrian writers and thinkers Arthur Schnitzler, Stefan Zweig, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Karl Kraus, and Theodor Herzl in the cultural context of the Austrian fin de siècle and the cultural crisis that went with it. All of them drew more or less consciously on a rich Jewish heritage, which they either turned away from (Kraus, Zweig) or sought a new rapprochement with (Beer-Hofmann, Herzl). The dynamic tensions resulting from the interplay between the absorption of Austrian culture, on the one hand, and the imprint of century-old Jewish traditions and values on the other find their expression in the different responses of these Austrian-Jewish personalities to the culture and cultural crisis of the fin de siècle . As such they can be considered paradigmatic for the situation of all European Jews.

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Inhalt: Sarah Fraiman-Morris, Jüdische Aspekte >Jung-Wiens< im Kulturkontext des Fin de Siècle. Vorwort. - Jakob Hessing, Die langen Wurzeln des Jungen Wien. - Robert S. Wistrich, Karl Kraus: Prophet or Renegate? - Hanni Mittelmann, »... durch die Kunst unsere Schmerzen in lauter Blumen verwandeln.« Theodor Herzls »Philosophische Erzählungen«. - Sarah Fraiman-Morris, Richard Beer-Hofmanns Suche nach der Transzendenz: »Schlaflied für Mirjam« und »Der Tod Georgs«. - Mark H. Gelber, Interfaces between Young Vienna and the Jewish Poetic Movement. Richard Beer-Hofmann and Stefan Zweig. - Jacob Golomb, Stefan Zweig's Tragedy as a Nietzschean Grenzjude. - Jeffrey B. Berlin, Schnitzler's Unpublished Memoir »Urheberrecht und geistiges Eigentum«. With Commentary about his Views on Copyright Laws. - Shimon Levy, Von Schnitzler bis Turrini. Meilensteine auf dem Weg des österreichischen Theaters in Israel.