Preface I. Self-Reflections 1. The Story of a Friendship Gone Bad: Heinrich Heine on Ludwig Borne 2. Irrational Man: Gershom Sholem's Decisive Years 3. The Text Life of Dreams: Arthur Schnitzler's Nighttime Diaries II. Legendary Lives 4. Misreading Kafka 5. The Wittgensteins and the Perils of Family Biography 6. Dust-to-Dust Song: Nelly Sachs's Life 7. Sadness in the Mountains: Freud and the Upside of Transience 8. The Middle Way of Erich Fromm III. Beyond the Canon 9. Bambi's Jewish Roots 10. Appraising the Collector: The Life and Work of Stefan Zweig 11. Fear and Self-Loathing in fin-de-siecle Vienna: Otto Weininger's Sex and Character IV. Renderings 12. That Other Metamorphosis: Translating Kafka 13. The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon and the Task of the Retranslator 14. The Poetics and Politics of Hugo von Hofmannsthal V. Studying German Jewry 15. Kafka's Identity Politics 16. Whose Jewish: Theorizing German-Jewish Culture 17. Rabbis Making Role Models: German-Jewish Middlebrow Literature 18. Schnitzler's Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go? 19. Rereading Freud's Moses Again 20. Erich Auerbach's Exile and the Motion of Mimesis VI. The End 21. Hitler Viennese Waltz 22. The Fuhrer Furor 23. Holocaust Imponderables 24. Racism: Coded as Culture 25. Gender Unbender: Pierre Bourdieu and the Enigmatic Durability of Bad Values 26. The Paradoxes of Holocaust Literature: A Guide for the Darkly Perplexed Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
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