Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Katja Garloff and Agnes Mueller -- Self-reflection in first- and second-generation authors. What is a German Jewish author? authorial self-fashioning in Maxim Biller, Esther Dischereit, and Barbara Honigmann / Katja Garloff -- (Non-Jewish) German constructions of (German) Jewish writing in the late work of Gunter Grass, Martin Walser, and Christa Wolf / Stuart Taberner -- Revenge, restitution, ressentiment: Edgar Hilsenrath's and Ruth Kluger's late writings as Holocaust metatestimony / Helen Finch -- Multiple identities and diversification of Holocaust memory. The German Jewish migrant novel after 1990: politics of memory and multidirectional writing / Jessica Ortner -- Beyond negative symbiosis: the displacement of Holocaust trauma and memory in Alina Bronksy's Scherbenpark and Olga Grjasnowa's Der russe iIst einer, der birken liebt / Elizabeth Loentz -- Memory without borders? migrant identity and the legacy of the Holocaust in Olga Grjasnowa's Der russe ist einer, der birken liebt / Jonathan Skolnik -- Multilingualism and Jewishness in Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht Esther / Andree Michaelis-Konig -- New themes and directions in recent German Jewish literature. Actuality and historicity in Mirna Funk's Winternahe / Luisa Banki -- German psycho: the language of depression in Oliver Polak's Der judische patient / Caspar Battegay -- Religion and the Holocaust: Imre Kertesz, Benjamin Stein, and Kaddish for a friend / Agnes Mueller -- Coda: interviews with two contemporary German Jewish writers. Interview with Olga Grjasnowa / Katja Garloff and Agnes Mueller -- Interview with Mirna Funk / Katja Garloff and Agnes Mueller.