"Not One of Them in Place is the first book to examine the ways in which Jewish belief, thought, and culture have been shaped and articulated in modern American poetry. Based on the idea that recent American poetry has gravitated between two traditions - romantic and symbolist o…
In this analysis of how Jewish thought and cultural identity have been articulated in modern American poetry, the author offers a few clues but does not obsess about what is distinctive about Jewish poetry. Nor does he pursue gender issues in its feminist verse. Rather, Finkelst…
A study of the life and work of the German Jewish writer Henry William Katz (1906-1992), who was born as Herz Wolff Katz in Austrian Galicia and settled with his family in Germany in 1916. As a young man, Katz joined the Social Democratic movement and began his career as a lefti…
This is the first academic treatment of the life and work of the German-Jewish writer, Henry William Katz (1906-1992), who was exiled from Nazi Germany in 1933. From a combined literary, historical, biographical and sociological perspective, Ena Pedersen analyses Katz's depictio…
