Birgit Maier-Katkin

The Art of Layering: Jewish Identity and the Formation of Socio-Intellectual Awareness in Anna Seghers’s Early Years

This article examines the intellectual discourse in the earlier writings of the German Jewish writer Anna Seghers (produced in the 1920s–40s) and reveals that her emerging focus on socio-political themes was not only motivated by an introduction to left-wing liberal ideas during her formative university years but was a...