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Geteilte Territorien: Topographie, Genealogie und Jüdische Studien

German-Jewish literature has often been described as creating interstitial spaces which subvert the boundaries of national cultures. This article shows how such an emphasis tends to replicate the boundaries it seeks to subject to critical analysis. It points to instances of Jewish writing excluded from the canon of ‘intercultural’ German-Jewish literature because they could not be captured in terms of boundaries; it examines how German-Jewish authors themselves described interstitial spaces as impossible to inhabit; and it suggests that Literary Studies and Jewish Studies might jointly develop new approaches to the dynamics of neighbourhoods, shared territories and connected histories.