The New German Jewry and the European Context

The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-35606-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 211 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 274 g

Reihe: New Perspectives in German Political Studies

Departing from the recent critical literature on the emergence of a new German Jewry, this volume proposes a new perspective on the post-1980s phenomenon of re-emerging Jewish culture in Germany as a case study for wider developments in Europe and the international context.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bodemann, Y.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora; Y.M.Bodemann PART I: A EUROPEAN JEWISH SPACE? Can One Reconcile the Jewish World and Europe?; D.Pinto Residues of Empire: The Paradigmatic Meaning of Jewish Trans-Territorial Experience for an Integrated European History; D.Diner PART II: THE NEW DIASPORIC FIELD Can the Experience of Diaspora Judaism Serve as a Model for Islam in Today's Multicultural Europe?; S.Gilman Learning Diaspora: German Turks and the Jewish Narrative; Y.M.Bodemann & G.Yurdakul PART III: GERMAN-JEWISH LIMINALITIES Jewish Studies or Gentile Studies? A Discipline in Search of its Subject; L.Weissberg How Jewish is it? W.G. Sebald and the Question of "Jewish" Writing in Germany Today: L.Morris PART IV: RUSSIAN SPEAKING JEWS AND TRANSNATIONALISM Homo Sovieticus in Disneyland: The Jewish Communities in Germany Today; J.Kessler Fifteen Years of Russian-Jewish Immigration to Germany: Successes and Setbacks; J.H.Schoeps & O.Glockner In the Ethnic Twilight: The Paths of Russian Jews in Germany; Y.M.Bodemann & O.Bagno Afterword; J.M.Peck

Über Autor(innen)

Y. MICHAL BODEMANN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. His major publications include  and (editor), plus two volumes in German, which was listed on the German book critics list of ten best non-fiction books, and .