German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion : : Writing the Jewish Self / / Angela Kuttner Botelho.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• VerfasserIn: Kuttner Botelho, Angela,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 130 p.)

This book explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story of one family as it grapples with the meaning of its Jewish origins in a post-Holocaust, post-conversionary milieu. Utilizing archival family texts and multiple interviews spanning three generati...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Family Cast of Characters
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I
• My Very Own Converts: A Diptych
• 1 A Mother’s Tale
• 2 My Father: In Search Of The Hidden Jew
• Part II
• Resonances
• 3 Sibling Stories
• 4 The Third Generation: Points of Light
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Appendix I. Eva Kuttner’s “Sort of Autobiography”
• Appendix II. The Outermost Edges
• Appendix III. Selected Family Photographs
• Index of Persons
• Front Matter 2
• Acknowledgments
• Family Cast of Characters
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I
• My Very Own Converts: A Diptych
• 1 A Mother’s Tale
• 2 My Father: In Search Of The Hidden Jew
• Part II
• Resonances
• 3 Sibling Stories
• 4 The Third Generation: Points of Light
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Appendix I. Eva Kuttner’s “Sort of Autobiography”
• Appendix II. The Outermost Edges
• Appendix III. Selected Family Photographs
• Index of Persons