EAN: 9783111270753

GERMAN JEWS AND THE PERSISTENCE OF JEWISH IDENT...

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.

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