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Jews in Germany after the Holocaust

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"Based on remarkably candid interviews with nearly one hundred German Jews, Lynn Rapaport's book reveals a rare understanding of how the memory of the Holocaust shapes Jews' everyday lives. ... [The book] 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."--P. [i].

Title Jews in Germany after the Holocaust : memory, identity, and Jewish-German relations / Lynn Rapaport. [electronic resource] [Cambridge cultural social studies ]
Publisher Cambridge, U.K.
New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press
Creation Date 1997
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-317) and index.
English
Content Setting the stage: the Jewish community of Frankfurt and the voices of its members -- 1. Holocaust memory and Jewish identity -- 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 loyalty and the lack of national affiliation -- 5. My friends are not typical Germans: the character of Jewish-German friendships -- 6. Interethnic intimacy: the character of Jewish-German sex, love, and intermarriage -- 7. Theoretical implications and future research.
Series Cambridge cultural social studies Jews in Germany after the Holocaust
Extent 1 online resource (xi, 325 p. )
Language English
National Library system number 997010702210405171
MARC RECORDS
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