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Es gibt eine ebenso verbreitete wie zu kritisierende Tradition, Migration stets als Problem zu betrachten - für die 'abgebenden' wie für die 'aufnehmenden' Gesellschaften, wie es abstrakt heißt. Eine solche Perspektive will vor allem den Blick auf die konkret gemachten Erfahrungen von Aus- und Einwanderung sowie auf Räume und Zeiten 'dazwischen' versperren. Dabei ist Migration auch kulturelle Praxis, Ergebnis zielgerichteten (wenn auch oft verzweifelten) Handelns. Persönliche Dokumente der Migrationserfahrung - Briefe, Tagebücher, Fotografien, Zeichnungen, Memoiren - zeugen von...

Migration is, and has always been, a disruptive experience. Freedom from oppression and hope for a better life are counter-balanced by feelings of loss loss of family members, of a home, of personal belongings. Memories of the migration process itself often fade quickly away in view of the new challenges that await immigrants in their new homelands.

This volume asks, and shows, how migration memories have been kept, stored, forgotten, and indeed retrieved in many different archives, in official institutions, and in heritage centres, as well as in personal and family collections. Based...

Published in Germany in 1920, Sammy Gronemann's satirical novel set in 1903 at the time of the Sixth Zionist Congress follows the life of a baptized Jew, Heinz Lehnsen, as he negotiates legal entanglements, German culture, religious differences, and Zionist aspirations. A chance encounter with a long-lost cousin from a shtetl in Russia further complicates the plot and challenges the characters' notions of Jewish identity and their belief in the claims of the Zionist movement. Gronemann's humor and compassion slyly expose the foibles and contradictions of human behavior. With deep insight...

Published in Germany in 1920, Sammy Gronemann's satirical novel set in 1903 at the time of the Sixth Zionist Congress follows the life of a baptized Jew, Heinz Lehnsen, as he negotiates legal entanglements, German culture, religious differences, and Zionist aspirations. A chance encounter with a long-lost cousin from a shtetl in Russia further complicates the plot and challenges the characters' notions of Jewish identity and their belief in the claims of the Zionist movement. Gronemann's humor and compassion slyly expose the foibles and contradictions of human behavior. With deep insight...