| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in immigration and culture ; 17 |
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Studies in immigration and culture ; 17.
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| Contents |
Introduction. Heavy baggage : memory and generation in ethnic history / Alexander Freund -- A flying piano and then -- silence : German-Canadian memories of the Great War / Alexander Freund -- One Führer, two kings : a Canadian prime minister in Nazi Germany and the dilemma of responsibility / Robert Teigrob -- A transnational Yekkish identity? Comparing German Jews in Canada and Israel / Patrick Farges -- The roots of ethnic fundamentalism in German-Canadian studies : The case of Gottlieb Leibbrandt / Karen Brglez -- Gatekeeping in the Lutheran Church : ethnicity, generation, and religion in 1960s Toronto / Elliot Worsfold -- Migration trajectories and the construction of generational discourses among contemporary German immigrants in Ottawa in the 2000s / Anke Patzelt -- "We Never really talked about it" : second- and third-generation German Canadians' family memories of the Holocaust / Sara Frankenberger -- Creating family legacies : descendants memorialize their German female ancestors / Christine Ensslen -- Afterword. What does it mean to be "German Canadian"? The challenge of history and the obligation of memory / Roger Frie |
| Summary |
"Being German Canadian explores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other's integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German immigrants and their descendants. As one of Canada's largest ethnic groups, German Canadians allow for a variety of longitudinal and multi-generational studies that explore how different generations have negotiated and transmitted diverse individual experiences, collective memories, and national narratives. Drawing on recent research in memory and migration studies, this volume studies how twentieth-century violence shaped the integration of immigrants and their descendants. More broadly, the collection seeks to document the state of the field in German-Canadian history. Being German Canadian brings together senior and junior scholars from History and related disciplines to investigate the relationship between, and significance of, the concepts of generation and memory for the study of immigration and ethnic history. It aims to move immigration historiography towards exploring the often fraught relationship among different immigrant generations--whether generation is defined according to age cohort or era of arrival."-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Canada |
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Collective memory |
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Emigration & Immigration |
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Germans |
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History |
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Immigrants |
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Intergenerational relations |
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Post-Confederation (1867-) |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE |
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Social history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2021) |
| Subject |
Germans -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
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Immigrants -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
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Collective memory.
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Intergenerational relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
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Collective memory
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Germans
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Immigrants
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Intergenerational relations
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Freund, Alexander, 1969- editor.
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| ISBN |
0887555977 |
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9780887555954 |
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0887555950 |
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9780887555978 |
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