ISBN:
9783110731965
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9783110732061
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 130 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2021
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kuttner Botelho, Angela German Jews and the persistence of Jewish identity in conversion
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Botelho, Angela Kuttner, 1942 - German Jews and the persistence of Jewish identity in conversion
Keywords:
Jüdische Identität
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Konversion
;
Deutsche Juden
;
HISTORY / Jewish
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Holocaust
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German Jews
;
Jewish identity
;
conversion
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memory
;
narrativity
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Deutschland
;
Judentum
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Christentum
;
Konversion
;
Identität
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Family Cast of Characters -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- My Very Own Converts: A Diptych -- 1 A Mother’s Tale -- 2 My Father: In Search Of The Hidden Jew -- Part II -- Resonances -- 3 Sibling Stories -- 4 The Third Generation: Points of Light -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix I. Eva Kuttner’s “Sort of Autobiography” -- Appendix II. The Outermost Edges -- Appendix III. Selected Family Photographs -- Index of Persons -- Front Matter 2 -- Acknowledgments -- Family Cast of Characters -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- My Very Own Converts: A Diptych -- 1 A Mother’s Tale -- 2 My Father: In Search Of The Hidden Jew -- Part II -- Resonances -- 3 Sibling Stories -- 4 The Third Generation: Points of Light -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix I. Eva Kuttner’s “Sort of Autobiography” -- Appendix II. The Outermost Edges -- Appendix III. Selected Family Photographs -- Index of Persons
Abstract:
This book explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story of one family as it grapples with the meaning of its Jewish origins in a post-Holocaust, post-conversionary milieu. Utilizing archival family texts and multiple interviews spanning three generations, beginning with the author’s German Jewish parents, 1940s refugees, and engaging the insights of contemporary scholars, the book traces the impact of a contested Jewish identity on the deconstruction and reconstruction of the Jewish self. The Holocaust as post-memory and the impact of the German Jewish culture personified by the author’s parents leads to a retrieval of a lost Jewish identity, postmodern in its implications, reinforcing the concept of Judaism as ultimately a family affair. Focusing on the personal to illuminate a complex historical phenomenon, this book proposes a new cultural history that challenges conventional boundaries of what is Jewish and what is not
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110731965
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