The Passport as Home

Comfort in Rootlessness
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-963-386-421-0
Verlag: Central European University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

A Scholar's Quest for Home and Identity

Experience the remarkable story of a Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking Jewish professor. From Vienna to Columbia and Harvard, he navigates a life marked by rootlessness, seeking comfort and purpose. His journey unfolds against the backdrop of five decades, two continents, and significant political and cultural changes.

As we follow his pursuit of a home, we gain insight into the critical developments of post-1945 Europe and America. Markovits's emigration experiences, first from Romania to Vienna and later from Vienna to New York, shed light on the challenges he faced.

His journey offers a panoramic view of the forces shaping the latter half of the 20th century. Despite America's flaws, he finds it a beacon of academic excellence, intellectual openness, cultural diversity, and religious tolerance—qualities that Europe lacked.

Explore the complexities of identity, culture, and the universal search for belonging in this captivating narrative.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Markovits, Andrei S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Michael Ignatieff Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Origins: The Virtues of Rootlessness Chapter 2. A Paean to Tante Trude (Who Might or Might Not Have Been a Nazi) Chapter 3. Four Friendships: Discovering America in Vienna Chapter 4. Daphne Scheer, Real Madrid and Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan): The Personal Meets the Political Chapter 5. The Rolling Stones Play Vienna (Resulting in Bodily Harm to the City's Jews) Chapter 6. Arrival in New York: The Dream Meets the Reality Chapter 7. Columbia 1968: How the World - and Andy - Changed in a Single Year Chapter 8. Kiki: Big Politics and Little Andy Chapter 9. The Grateful Dead: My American Family Chapter 10. Harvard's Center for European Studies: The Interloper Finds a Home Chapter 11. Dogs: The Rescuer Rescues Himself Chapter 12. Germany: Admiration for the Bundesrepublik, Discomfort with Deutschland-Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Andrei S. Markovits is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies; Professor of Political Science; Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Professor of Sociology at the The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Michael Ignatieff served as President and Rector of CEU between 2016 and 2021. He now is a professor in CEU's history department. Ignatieff comes to CEU after serving as Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice of the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.