We are pleased to announce the publication of “Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature”!

The book examines how German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe who migrated to Germany during or after the Cold War have widened European cultural memory to include the traumas of the Gulag. Jessica Ortner argues that German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe and the GDR who migrated to Germany as refugees during or after the Cold War have responded critically to the need to widen European cultural memory to include the traumatic experiences of the East. The writers focused on include Katja Petrowskaja, Olga Grjasnowa, Lena Gorelik, Vladimir Vertlib, and Barbara Honigmann.

The book was written by Dr Jessica Ortner, co-chair of the MSA Nordic Regional Group, and published by Boydell & Brewer.

For more information: https://bit.ly/3SBj9qY