Zwischen (selbst)bewusster Desintegration und multipler Ausgrenzung

Junge jüdische Literatur aus Polen und Deutschland

Abstract

The article depicts recent debates about the conception of Jewishness in Poland and Germany in three different areas of discourse: Based on a sketch of the situation of Jewish life after 1989, the evaluation of interviews with Jews of the so called third generation testifies the changing Jewish self-perception in both countries. Jewish journals that increasingly offer a broader perspective on contemporary Jewish life and do no longer focus on the Shoah as main identification feature complete this point of view. Based on this, I analyse literary examples in which Jewishness is no longer understood as a deprivation feature. The authors look for ways to overcome the alleged outsider-notion and to reposition the Jewish community in the society (with partly fictional strategies).