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Today, we witness an increased interest in European Jewish culture in general, and in East European Jewry in particular. This greater interest can be seen in different areas of public life, such as cultural events, art, media, but also in the human sciences. In Germany, we can observe an increased presence of Jewish culture in the academic community, particularly: studies of the Jewish diaspora becoming more often a part of philological disciplines such as German, English, Romance and Slavonic Studies.1 However, we still have extraordinarily few academic chairs or established degree programs with a focus on research and teaching Jewish “hyphen-areas”, especially beyond German-Jewish Studies. Yiddish Studies and Jewish studies are still perceived as two distinct disciplines, eschewing the contact with studies of other cultures, which in contrast with the very facts of European Jewish history. Especially in Germany, but to some extent also in East European countries such as Poland, Ukraine and Russia, Jewish studies going beyond the boundaries of their Judaic academic agenda tend to focus on a limited set of subjects, ranging from the annihilation of Jews during the Shoah over antisemitism and the commemoration of Jewish sacrifice, to the topic of loss. The prevalence of these by all means significant subject matters, illustrating the permanent processing of collective historical tragedies, results in the mechanization of Jewish memory and stands in the way of a broader, more creative and balanced approach of Jewish history, culture and especially literature. Popular interest in Judaism in Europe over the last decades (the so-called Jewish Revival following the historical reappraisal after the fall of the iron curtain) has promoted a rather superficial ethnographic form of acquaintance with Jewish, and especially with the heavily mythologized “Eastern Jewish” cul-

About the Integration of Jewish Literatures into Slavonic Studies