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1 online resource (302 pages) |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; PART ONE Jewish Life in Germany; 1. The Contemporary German Fascination for Things Jewish: Toward a Minor Jewish Culture; 2. A Reemergence of German Jewry?; 3. Becoming Strangers: Jews in Germany's Five New Provinces; PART TWO Contemporary Issues: Politics, Religion, and Immigration; 4. What Is ""Religion"" among Jews in Contemporary Germany?; 5. ""What Could Be More Fruitful, More Healing, More Purifying?"" Representations of Jews in the German Media after 1989 |
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6. The ""Ins"" and ""Outs"" of the New Germany: Jews, Foreigners, Asylum Seekers7. The Persian Gulf War and the Germans' ""Jewish Questions"": Transformations on the Left; PART THREE Literature and Sexuality; 8. What Keeps the Jews in Germany Quiet?; 9. En-gendering Bodies of Memory: Tracing the Genealogy of Identity in the Work of Esther Dischereit, Barbara Honigmann, and Irene Dische; 10. Male Sexuality and Contemporary Jewish Literature in German: The Damaged Body as the Image of the Damaged Soul; PART FOUR Concluding Voices; 11. In Defense of Ambiguity; 12. No Exit from This Jewry; Index |
| Summary |
How can there by a Jewish culture in today's Germany? Since the fall of the Wall, there has been a substantial increase in the visibility of Jews in German culture, not only an increase in the number of Jews living there, but, more importantly, an explosion of cultural activity. Jews are writing and making films about the central question of Jewish life after the Shoah. Given the xenophobia that has marked Germany since reunification, the appearance of a new Jewish is both surprising and normalizing. Even more striking than the reappearance of Jewish culture in England after the expulsion and |
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Print version record |
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Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- Congresses
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Jews -- Germany -- Identity -- Congresses
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German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Judaism and literature -- Germany -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
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Civilization -- Jewish influences.
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German literature -- Jewish authors.
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Jews -- Identity.
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Jews -- Intellectual life.
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Judaism and literature.
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Germany -- Civilization -- Jewish influences -- Congresses
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Germany -- History -- 1990- -- Congresses
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Germany.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gear, Maria Carmen
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Liendo, Ernesto
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| ISBN |
9780814733462 |
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0814733468 |
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