{"id":3713,"date":"2015-02-03T16:11:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T16:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2015-02-04T16:15:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:15:33","slug":"axel-stahler-on-jewish-literature-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/02\/03\/axel-stahler-on-jewish-literature-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Axel St\u00e4hler on Jewish literature and identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/staehler.html\">Dr\u00a0Axel St\u00e4hler<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a> has co-edited two new volumes.<\/p>\n<p>The first, <em>Writing Jews in Contemporary Britain <\/em>was co-edited with Professor Sue Vice (University of Sheffield) and appeared as a special issue of the academic journal <em>European Judaism, <\/em>14.2 (2014). The volume collects contributions on contemporary British Jewish Literature.<\/p>\n<p><i>European Judaism<\/i> has, for over 40 years,\u00a0provided 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.<\/p>\n<p>Further details can be found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.berghahnbooks.com\/ej\/\">http:\/\/journals.berghahnbooks.com\/ej\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second volume entitled <em>Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews: Literary and Artistic Transformations of European National Discourses <\/em>(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 <em>European-Jewish Studies: Contributions<\/em> series of the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Potsdam. This collection of essays proposes\u00a0to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to gender, colonialism, and orientalism.<\/p>\n<p>Further details can be found on the publishers website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/view\/product\/212712\">http:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/view\/product\/212712<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr\u00a0Axel St\u00e4hler 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/02\/03\/axel-stahler-on-jewish-literature-and-identity\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":3748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135858,18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}