Overview
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.
- | Author: Lynn Rapaport
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Jul 17, 1997
- | Number of Pages: 340 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 052158809X
- | ISBN-13: 9780521588096
