The New German Jewry and the European Context

The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora
2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-52107-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 211 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 389 g

Reihe: New Perspectives in German Political Studies

Departing from the recent critical literature on the emergence of a new German Jewry, this volume proposes a new perspective on the post-1980s phenomenon of re-emerging Jewish culture in Germany as a case study for wider developments in Europe and the international context.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bodemann, Y.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora; Y.M.Bodemann PART I: A EUROPEAN JEWISH SPACE? Can One Reconcile the Jewish World and Europe?; D.Pinto Residues of Empire: The Paradigmatic Meaning of Jewish Trans-Territorial Experience for an Integrated European History; D.Diner PART II: THE NEW DIASPORIC FIELD Can the Experience of Diaspora Judaism Serve as a Model for Islam in Today's Multicultural Europe?; S.Gilman Learning Diaspora: German Turks and the Jewish Narrative; Y.M.Bodemann & G.Yurdakul PART III: GERMAN-JEWISH LIMINALITIES Jewish Studies or Gentile Studies? A Discipline in Search of its Subject; L.Weissberg How Jewish is it? W.G. Sebald and the Question of "Jewish" Writing in Germany Today: L.Morris PART IV: RUSSIAN SPEAKING JEWS AND TRANSNATIONALISM Homo Sovieticus in Disneyland: The Jewish Communities in Germany Today; J.Kessler Fifteen Years of Russian-Jewish Immigration to Germany: Successes and Setbacks; J.H.Schoeps & O.Glockner In the Ethnic Twilight: The Paths of Russian Jews in Germany; Y.M.Bodemann & O.Bagno Afterword; J.M.Peck

Über Autor(innen)

Y. MICHAL BODEMANN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. His major publications include A Jewish Family in Germany Today: An Intimate Portrait and Jews, Germans, Memory: Reconstructions of Jewish Life in Germany (editor), plus two volumes in German, Gedächtnistheater: Die jüdische Gemeinschaft und ihre deutsche Erfindung, which was listed on the German book critics list of ten best non-fiction books, and In den Wogen der Erinnerung: Jüdische Existenz in Deutschland.