Caspar Battegay's I Geschichte der Möglichkeit: Utopie, Diaspora und die "jüdische Frage" i demonstrates that literature by German Jewish authors can only be adequately understood in the larger contexts in which its literary projects intervene. The stunningly long and expansive novels that this literature has produced is a striking testimony to the significance of the challenge that kept these authors writing page after page after page. As Battegay suggests, this archive of utopian reimagination of life in a free diasporic society became the only place left for the voices of Jewish modernity to stake out a place of their own they were denied elsewhere. [Extracted from the article]
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