Jews in Germany After the Holocaust: Memory, Identity, and Jewish-German Relations

ISBN-13: 9780521588096 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 340 str.

Lynn Rapaport

Opis

What is it like to be Jewish and to be born and raised in Germany after the Holocaust? Based on candid interviews with nearly 100 German Jews, this book offers an understanding of how the memory of the Holocaust shapes Jews' everyday lives. As their views of non-Jewish Germans and of themselves, their political integration into German society, and their friendships and relationships with Germans are uncovered, the obstacles to readjustment when sociocultural memory is still present are better understood. This is also a book about Jewish identity in the midst of modernity. It shows how the boundaries of ethnicity are not marked by how religious Jews are, or their absorption of traditional culture, but by the moral distinctions rooted in Holocaust memory that Jews draw between themselves and other Germans.

Recenzje

'Rapaport's fine study demonstrates powerfully how a deeply experienced 'otherness' can reproduce itself daily in a situation devoid of any objective differences and ostensible discrimination … excellent book'. American Journal of Sociology

Spis treści

Prologue: setting the stage: the Jewish community of Frankfurt and the voices of its members; 1. Introduction; 2. Living in the land of the murderers?: How Jews who live in Germany view Germans; 3. Here in Germany I am a Jew: identity images and the criteria for group membership; 4. I have German citizenship but I wouldn't call myself a German: ethnic group loyalties and the lack of national affiliations; 5. My friends are not typical Germans: the character of Jewish-German friendships; 6. Interethnic intimacy: the character of German-Jewish sex, love, and intermarriage; 7. Theoretical implications and future research; Appendix: methodology.