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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/worldlanguages_pubs Part of the Jewish Studies Commons Repository Citation Lubich, Frederick, "Surviving to Excel: The Last German Jewish Autobiographies of Holocaust Survivors Ruth Klüger, Marcel Reich- Ranicki, and Paul Spiegel" (2005). World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications. 26. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/worldlanguages_pubs/26 Original Publication Citation Lubich, F. (2005). Surviving to excel: The asl t German Jewish autobiographies of holocaust survivors Ruth Klüger, Marcel Reich- Ranicki, and Paul Spiegel. Modern Judaism, 25(2), 189-210. doi:10.1093/mj/kji012 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the World Languages & Cultures at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Frederick Lubich SURVIVING TO EXCEL: THE LAST GERMAN JEWISH AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS RUTH KLÜGER, MARCEL REICH-RANICKI, AND PAUL SPIEGEL I Ruth Klüger’s Weiterleben: Eine Jugend (1992) is one of the first narra- tives of a series of testimonials of the last members of the generation of Holocaust survivors, which began to appear toward the end of the twentieth century.1 The author was born in 1931 in Vienna, where her first years of socialization were already marked by a rapidly growing discrimination against the city’s Jewish population.