Dr Axel Stähler from the Department of Comparative Literature has co-edited two new volumes.
The first, Writing Jews in Contemporary Britain was co-edited with Professor Sue Vice (University of Sheffield) and appeared as a special issue of the academic journal European Judaism, 14.2 (2014). The volume collects contributions on contemporary British Jewish Literature.
European Judaism has, for over 40 years, provided a voice for the post war Jewish world in Europe. It has reflected the different realities of each country and helped to rebuild Jewish consciousness after the Holocaust.
Further details can be found at: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/ej/
The second volume entitled Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews: Literary and Artistic Transformations of European National Discourses (Gruyter, 2015), was co-edited with Professor Ulrike Brunotte (University of Maastricht) and Dr Anna-Dorothea Ludewig (University of Potsdam). It was published as volume 23 of the prestigious European-Jewish Studies: Contributions series of the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Potsdam. This collection of essays proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to gender, colonialism, and orientalism.
Further details can be found on the publishers website at: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/212712