The Passport as Home : : Comfort in Rootlessness / / Andrei S. Markovits.
A Scholar's Quest for Home and Identity Experience the remarkable story of a Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking Jewish professor. From Vienna to Columbia and Harvard, he navigates a life marked by rootlessness, seeking comfort and purpose. His journey unfolds against the backdrop of five decades...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE Origins: The Virtues of Rootlessness
- CHAPTER TWO A Paean to Tante Trude (Who Might or Might Not Have Been a Nazi)
- CHAPTER THREE Four Friendships: Discovering America in Vienna
- CHAPTER FOUR Daphne Scheer, Real Madrid and Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan): The Personal Meets the Political
- CHAPTER FIVE The Rolling Stones Play Vienna (Resulting in Bodily Harm to the City’s Jews)
- CHAPTER SIX Arrival in New York: The Dream Meets the Reality
- CHAPTER SEVEN Columbia 1968: How the World—and Andy—Changed in a Single Year
- CHAPTER EIGHT Kiki: Big Politics and Little Andy
- CHAPTER NINE The Grateful Dead: My American Family
- CHAPTER TEN Harvard’s Center for European Studies: The Interloper Finds a Home
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Dogs: The Rescuer Rescues Himself
- CHAPTER TWELVE Germany: Admiration for the Bundesrepublik, Discomfort with Deutschland
- EPILOGUE