The analysis of exile literature in the articles of this volume focuses on the Jewish experience of exile, thus giving the subject a profound, 2,500-year depth and a corresponding variety of strategies for coming to terms with the experience of exile. At the same time, this perspective broadens the perspective on the phenomenon of exile literature to include the tensions between 'exile and homecoming'. The essays discuss German, Hebrew, and French exile literature, with the emphasis on the 20th century.

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Contents: Bernhard Greiner/Philipp Theisohn, Vorwort: Exil und Exilliteratur im jüdischen Horizont. - Guy Stern, From Exile Experience to Exile Studies. - Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, When Exiles Return: Jerusalem as Topos of the Mind and Soil. - Jakob Hessing, Heinrich Heine's »Reisebilder« as Images of Exile. - Philipp Theisohn, Erde / Papier. Kafka, Literatur und Landnahme. - Pierre Bouretz, Yichuv as Teshuvah: Gershom Scholem's Settlement in Jerusalem as Return from Assimilation. - Mark H. Gelber, Stefan Zweig's Conceptions of Exile. - Christoph Schmidt, Deus sive natura. The Transformation of the Jewish Apocalyptic Version of History into a Natural History in Jizchak Fritz Baer's Treatise of >GalutOrient<. The German-language Weekly »Orient« (Haifa, 1942--1943) between German Exile and Zionist Aliya. - Bernhard Greiner, Re-Präsentation: Exil als Zeichenpraxis bei Anna Seghers. - Rochelle Tobias, The Homecoming of a Word: Mystical Language Philosophy in Celan's »Mit allen Gedanken«. - Carola Hilfrich, »The Land of Others«. Geographies of Exile in Hélène Cixous's writings. - Frank Stern, The Two-Way Ticket to Hollywood and the Master-Images of 20th Century Modernism. - Philipp Theisohn, Nach Jerusalem.