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Contemporary Jewish writing: Austria after Waldheim

This book offers a comprehensive study of the autobiographically inflected work of 11 Austrian writers (including one filmmaker) who have, following the so-called Waldheim Affair (1986), identified themselves as Jewish. The underlying research includes 15 hours of biographical interviews with 6 writers and the editor-in-chief of a leading Jewish magazine in Vienna and approximately 200 documents from the Vienna Literaturhaus archive. The study is based on close analysis of 16 major literary texts and the web activities of 3 authors (Facebook, personal webpages, blogs) as well as on content analyses of over 100 editions of 3 Jewish magazines.