Sojourners: The Return of German Jews and the Question of Identity (Texts and Contexts)

Language: English

Published by University of Nebraska Press, 1995

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First edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book shows very light shelfwear. Fine dust jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xi/309 pages. "“A firsthand confrontation with the inner fears and the outer realities of [German Jews] as they themselves reflect post-Shoah history and experience. This is not merely lived ‘history,’ it is ‘history’ with a living face.”—Sander L. Gilman 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.’” Uncertain, angry, resolute, anguished—the diverse testimonies of these people provide startling evidence that “the history of German Jews is not over.”".…

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Title
Sojourners: The Return of German Jews and the Question of Identity (Texts and Contexts)
Author
John Borneman, Jeffrey M. Peck
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Publication year
1995
Condition
Fine
Dust jacket
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0803212550
ISBN 13
9780803212558
Edition
1st Edition

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