Intergenerationelle Konflikte in der zeitgenössischen deutsch-jüdischen Literatur: Rafael Seligmanns Prosatexte

Abstract

The article discusses the example of Rafael Seligmann's prose, the problem of intergenerational conflicts in contemporary German-Jewish literature. He locates the first author in the German literature of the second generation and outlines their production aesthetic requirements. The subsequent text analysis illustrated by selected passages, such as Seligman made the conflictual relationship between Holocaust survivors and their descendants in two central themes: a distorted through ambivalent fascination, projections and wishful thinking image of Israel as well as delicate romantic relationships of young Jews to German non-Jews. Despite targeted provocations and violations of taboos Having determined an optimistic tone his texts. These testify to the hope of the author to a more open societies of German Jewry and on an equal dialogue between Jews and non Jews in Germany today.