Resettlers and Survivors : : Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989 / / Gaëlle Fisher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Fisher, Gaëlle,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Worlds of Memory ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Located on the border of present-day Romania and Ukraine, the historical region of Bukovina was the site of widespread displacement and violence as it passed from Romanian to Soviet hands and back again during World War II. This study focuses on two groups of “Bukovinians”—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—as they navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in and after 1945. Through comparisons of the narratives and self-conceptions of these groups, Resettlers and Survivors gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring Bukovina’s significance for them as both a geographical location and a “place of memory.”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Backgrounds -- Chapter 1. Being Bukovinian before 1945: German and Jewish Bukovinians in the Habsburg Empire, Romania and the Second World War -- Part II. Establishments -- Chapter 2. ‘Settling in the Motherland’: ‘Resettlers’ from Bukovina in West Germany after the Second World War -- Chapter 3. ‘A Remarkable Branch of the Jewish People’: Survivors from Bukovina between Romania and Israel after the Second World War -- Part III. Entanglements -- Chapter 4. ‘Lost Home’ and ‘Area of Expulsion’: Compensating for Loss at the Height of the Cold War -- Chapter 5. ‘Sunken Cultural Landscape’: Reimagining Bukovina through the Lens of Literature -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index