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    Prayer After the Slaughter. The Great War: Poems and Stories from World War I

    By Kurt Tucholsky

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    On July 28, 2014, we commemorate the beginning of the orginal catastrophe of the 20th century: The First World War, the "Great War". Everything that happened after this war, even into our own 21st century, is contingent on what happened between 1914 and 1918, and the Versailles peace conference of 1919. Literature, in many different languages, was one of the hallmarks of The Great War. It behoves us to take a closer look at Kurt Tucholsky, one of the most brilliant German writers and satirists of the 20th century, with regard to his writings on the Great War. Tucholsky served from 1915 and 1918, and returned home a convinced anti-militarist and pacifist. His writings are similar to those of Heinrich Heine, his role model, in appearing superficially simple, bur replete with hidden meanings. His style is biting, satirical, and penetrating, full of Berlin gallows humor. This anthology contains English translation of short stories as well as a biingual rendition of his war poetry, all representative of Tucholsky's style.

    Translators: Pater Appelbaum, James Scott
    Peter Appelbaum MD, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University. His interests in German and other languages as well as modern Jewish history led to his discovery of the lives and experiences of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers in the First World War German army. This work has yielded two books. Loyalty Betrayed: Jewish Chaplains in the German Army During the First World War is available now. Loyal Sons. German Jews in the First World War, will appear in September 2014. Additionally, Peter Appelbaum has unearthed poetry written by German Jewish soldiers, and translated many of those works, making them available in English for the first time. A book on these translations, with their corresponding German originals, is in progress in collaboration with Professor James Scott.

    James W. Scott, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of German at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania. His scholarly presentations have ranged from Rilke’s prose and Kafka’s short fiction to cabaret in East Germany and communicative testing. At present he is editing Ebernand von Erfurt's Kaiser und Kaiserin and preparing a new translation of Iwein, an Arthurian epic by Hartmann von Aue. His translations of articles by the German philosophers Rüdiger Bubner (Heidelberg), Manfred Frank (Eberhard Karls, Tübingen), and Wolfgang Welsch (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena) appear in Weakening Philosophy. He also published Essays in Honour of Gianni Vattimo, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.

    In Weimar Germany, Tucholsky was big, the most brilliant, prolific and witty cultural journalist of his time.
    —William Grimes, The New York Times

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEva Schweitzer
    Release dateJul 8, 2014
    ISBN9781935902249
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