The German-Jewish Dialogue

The German-Jewish Dialogue offers a unique selection of short stories,
plays, poems, essays, letters, and diary entries that illustrates
through literature the history of German-Jewish relations. From the
eighteenth century, when civil rights for Jews were first proposed,
through the 1990s and contemporary considerations of the Holocaust,
this anthology sheds light on the interaction between Jews in Germany
and Austria and their fellow Gentile Germans with works of high
literary merit, each introduced with a short preface. Ritche
Robertson`s lucid introduction puts the selections in their historical
context and his translations make available in English--in some cases
for the first time--both Jewish writers on various aspects of Jewish
experience and responses of Gentile writers to the Jews in their midst.