Ghosts of Home

The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-520-27125-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the “Vienna of the East” under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II—yet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories of its dispersed people and passed down to their children like a precious and haunted heirloom. In this original blend of history and communal memoir, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer chronicle the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory. They find evidence of a cosmopolitan culture of nostalgic lore—but also of oppression, shattered promises, and shadows of the Holocaust in Romania. Hirsch and Spitzer present the first historical account of Jewish Czernowitz in the English language and offer a profound analysis of memory's echo across generations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hirsch, Marianne

Spitzer, Leo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface

Part One
“We would not have come without you,” 1998
1 / “Where are you from?”

2 / Vienna of the East

3 / Strolling the Herrengasse

4 / The Idea of Czernowitz

5 / “Are we really in the Soviet Union?”

6 / The Crossroads

Part Two
The Darker Side, 2000
7 / Maps to Nowhere

8 / The Spot on the Lapel

9 / “There was never a camp here!”

10 / “This was once my home”

Part Three
Ghosts of Home, 2006
11 / The Persistence of Czernowitz

12 / The Tile Stove

Epilogue, 2008
Chernivtsi at Six Hundred

Notes

Selected Readings

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Institute of Research on Women and Gender, at Columbia University. She is the author of Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory, among other books. Leo Spitzer is Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History Emeritus at Dartmouth College, and the author of many books, most recently Hotel Bolivia: A Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism.