19026344X     

050276077                        

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Sojourners : the return of German Jews and the question of identity / by John Borneman and Jeffrey M. Peck

Borneman, John, 1952- ; Peck, Jeffrey M., 1950-

Lincoln [u.a.] : University of Nebraska Press, 1995

XI, 309 S ; 24 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet ; BfZ (Rechtsgrundlage SLG). WLB Stuttgart

eb 20240324 ; 1 (Rechtsgrundlage DE-4165)

0-8032-1255-0 ( (: £ 38.00))

0803212550, b9648549, b95R1891

OCoLC: 832580515     

OCoLC: 31938301 (aus SWB)     

Quelle | Interview

BD 9000  | NQ 2360      Ähnliche Literatur

DS134.4

943.004924 ; 943/.004924

Basisklassifikation: 15.43 (Deutsche Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart)

*Deutschland ; Juden ; Kulturelle Identität ; Quelle ; Interview      Zum Register

*Berlin ; Deutschland ; Judenvernichtung ; Juden ; Rückkehr ; Quelle ; Interview      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- Interviews ; Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- Identity ; Jews, German -- Identity ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Influence ; Berlin (Germany) -- Biography ; Berlin (Germany) -- Ethnic relations

This absorbing book of interviews takes one to the heart of modern German Jewish history. Of the eleven German Jews interviewed, four are from West Berlin, and seven are from East Berlin. The interviews provide an exceptionally varied and intimate portrait of Jewish experience in twentieth-century Germany. There are first-hand accounts of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, the Holocaust, and the divided Germany of the Cold War era. There are also vivid descriptions of the new united Germany, with its alarming resurgence of xenophobia and anti-Semitism. Some of the men and women interviewed affirm their dual German and Jewish identities with vigor. There is the West Berliner, for instance, who proclaims, "I am a German Jew. I want to live here." Others describe the impossibility of being both German and Jewish: "I don't have anything in common with the whole German people." Many confess to profound ambivalence, such as the East Berliner who feels that he is neither a native nor a foreigner in Germany: "If someone asks me, 'Who are you?' then I can only say, 'I am a fish out of water.'

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