Armenian and Jewish Experience between Expulsion and Destruction / / ed. by Sarah M. Ross, Regina Randhofer.

Jews and Armenians are often perceived as peoples with similar tragic historical experiences. Not only were both groups forced into statelessness and a life outside their homelands for centuries, in the 20th century, in the shadow of war, they were threatened with collective annihilation. Thus far,...

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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge : Herausgegeben vom Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Kooperation mit dem Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg , 51
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 310 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Broadening Perspectives. Introduction
  • DIASPORA AND MINORITY ISSUES
  • Identity and Migration
  • Is Translation Diasporic? A Confrontation between Franz Rosenzweig and Yehuda Halevi
  • Saint Vardan’s Day in the Diaspora and the Republic of Armenia: Similarities and Differences. The Use of Art, Literature, and Language in Celebrations
  • Yiddish Songs as an Identificatory Idiom in the Diaspora: Die schönsten Lieder der Ostjuden, Arranged by Darius Milhaud, Stefan Wolpe, and Alvin Curran
  • “If you see me walking alone on the road”: Sephardic Songs of Exile, Expulsion, Memory – and Return
  • Experience of Alterity
  • Jewish and Armenian Students at German Universities from the End of the Nineteenth Century and until the Outbreak of World War I
  • “The Jews of Caucasus”: Perception of Armenians in the German and Polish Travel Literature
  • “Natural Born Actors” on the Screen: Das alte Gesetz (1923) and the Theatricality of the Modern Jewish Experience
  • AGHET AND SHOAH
  • Experience – Memory –
  • Self-understanding
  • Between Armenian Praise and Zionist Critique: Henry Morgenthau and the Jews of the Ottoman Empire
  • The Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust: Trauma and Its Influence on Identity Changes of Survivors and their Descendants
  • Memory in Motion: Armenian Youth and New Forms of Engagement with the Past
  • Cultural Representations: Identity
  • Constructions and Negotiation Processes
  • Collective Memory in Israeli Popular Music: (Re)constructions across Generations
  • Historical Awareness in Zavèn Bibérian’s Autobiographical Longer Fragment: A Rare Perception of both Armenian and Jewish Sufferings
  • “Global Solidarity is Something to Warm the Cockles of Your Heart”: Holocaust and Genocide in Ephraim Kishon’s “Israeli Satire”
  • Persistent Parallels, Resistant Particularities: Holocaust Analogies and Avoidance in Armenian Genocide Centennial Cinema
  • Contributors
  • Authors
  • Editors
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Names