(German-Jewish Literature: 120 Portraits) is an essential reference work that chronicles the lives and contributions of authors who shaped the German-language literary landscape through a Jewish lens. Scope and Content
: For many of these authors, the German language remained their "homeland" even when they were stripped of citizenship or forced to flee. Purpose of the Collection Deutsch-jüdische Literatur: 120 Porträts
: It typically spans from the Enlightenment (Haskalah) in the 18th century—featuring figures like Moses Mendelssohn—through the Golden Age of German-Jewish culture, the rupture of the Holocaust, and into contemporary post-war and post-reunification literature. the rupture of the Holocaust