The double bind of self-narration
Joseph Roth, Jewish identity and the undercurrents of European modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12528933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ilse Josepha Lazaroms (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 693-710 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Review of History Revue européenne d histoire (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-7486 • E-ISSN: 1469-8293 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13507486.2012.719004 |
| OpenAlex | W1982206813 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This article deals with the infamous ‘mythomania’, or elaborate role-playing, of the Galician Jewish journalist and novelist Joseph Roth (1894–1939) during the two decades of his mature intellectual life, when he traversed interwar Europe first as a nomadic cosmopolitan, later as a political exile in the context of the narrowing horizon of Jewish life in Europe in the 1930s. It understands his intellectual quandaries, and the various narratives of self that Roth developed during his lifetime, as an on-going reaction against the catastrophes that characterised his private life as well as his historical times. As such, this paper addresses the undercurrents of German-Jewish modernity as they emerged in the form of the multiple expressions, as well as the negation or even the ultimate destruction, of Jewish identity
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · German · Identity (music · Jewish identity · Jewish thought · Judaism · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Religious studies · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation · Religious Studies
Jewish self-hatred
Weimar Germany's Left-Wing Intellectuals
The Other Jewish QuestionIdentifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity
Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews
The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919–1939
The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph
Suffering as Identity
The Mad Man as Artist
Austrians and Jews in the twentieth century
Leo Baeck Institute, Year BookWeltschRobert Leo Baeck Institute, Year Book xiLondonEast and West Library, 1966, xxii + 407, 12 plates
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