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Children Of Vienna: Translation, Rewriting, And Robert Neumann’S Legacy, Sarah Painitz Jun 2017

Children Of Vienna: Translation, Rewriting, And Robert Neumann’S Legacy, Sarah Painitz

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This essay aims to bring attention to the complex intersections of language, translation, and exile through an analysis of the production and various reproductions of Robert Neumann’s Children of Vienna. With this novel, first written in English in the fall and winter of 1945, Neumann wanted to direct attention to the plight of children in the destroyed cities of the former Third Reich and appeal for humanitarian aid from the British and American public. Why, then, considering its original intent as a call for action in response to an acute crisis, did the author retranslate his text almost 25 …


Review Of Herzog, Hillary Hope, Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers In Austria From The Fin De Siècle To The Present, Sarah S. Painitz Jul 2012

Review Of Herzog, Hillary Hope, Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers In Austria From The Fin De Siècle To The Present, Sarah S. Painitz

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A review essay of Hillary Hope Herzog. Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin de Siècle to the Present. Austrian and Habsburg Studies Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. 308 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-85745-181-1, by Sarah S. Painitz published online on H-Net.