Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany : : Life and Literature Since 1989 / / Sander L. Gilman, Karen Remmler.
How can there by a Jewish culture in today's Germany? Since the fall of the Wall, there has been a substantial increase in the visibility of Jews in German culture, not only an increase in the number of Jews living there, but, more importantly, an explosion of cultural activity. Jews are writin...
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| Year of Publication: | 1994 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part one. Jewish life in Germany
- 1. The contemporary German fascination for things Jewish: toward a minor Jewish culture
- 2. A reemergence of German Jewry?
- 3. Becoming strangers: Jews in Germany's five new provinces
- Part two. Contemporary issues: politics, religion, and immigration
- 4. What is "religion" among Jews in contemporary Germany?
- 5. "What could be more fruitful, more healing, more purifying?" representations of Jews in the German media after 1989
- 6. The "ins" and "outs" of the new Germany: Jews, foreigners, asylum seekers¹
- 7. The Persian gulf war and the Germans’ “Jewish questions”: transformations on the left
- Part three. Literature and sexuality
- 8. What keeps the Jews in Germany quiet?
- 9. En-gendering bodies of memory: tracing the genealogy of identity in the work of Esther Dischereit, Barbara Honigmann, and Irene Dische
- 10. Male sexuality and contemporary Jewish literature in German: the damaged body as the image of the damaged soul
- Part four. Concluding voices
- 11. In defense of ambiguity
- 12. No exit from this Jewry
- Index