Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany: Life and Literature Since 1989

Sander L. Gilman; Karen Remmler

Published by New York University Press 1994

Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany

Life and Literature Since 1989

Sander L. Gilman and Karen Remmler

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814733462.001.0001

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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 writing and making films about the central question of Jewish life after the Shoah.
Given the xenophobia that has marked Germany since reunification, the appearance of a new Jewish is both surprising and normalizing. Even more striking than the reappearance of Jewish culture in England after the expulsion and massacres of the Middle Ages, the presence of a new generation of Jewish writers in Germany is a sign of the complexity and tenacity of modern Jewish life in the Diaspora.
Edited by Sander L. Gilman and Karen Remmler and featuring works by many of the most noted specialists on the subject, including Susan Niemann, Y. Michael Bodemann, Marion Kaplan, Katharina Ochse, Robin Ostow, Rafael Seligmann, Jack Zipes, Jeffrey Peck, Kizer Walker, and Esther Dischereit, this volume explores the questions and doubts surrounding the revitalization of Jewish life in Germany. The writers cover such diverse topics as the social and institutional role that Jews now play, the role of religion in daily life, and gender and culture in post-Wall Jewish writing.

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Gilman Sander L. :

Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, as well as Professor of Psychiatry, at Emory University. He is the author or editor of more than ninety books, including the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part one. Jewish life in Germany
1. The contemporary German fascination for things Jewish: toward a minor Jewish culture Jack Zipes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. A reemergence of German Jewry? Y. Michal Bodemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3. Becoming strangers: Jews in Germany's five new provinces Robin Ostow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Part two. Contemporary issues: politics, religion, and immigration
4. What is "religion" among Jews in contemporary Germany? Marion Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5. "What could be more fruitful, more healing, more purifying?" representations of Jews in the German media after 1989 Katharina Ochse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
6. The "ins" and "outs" of the new Germany: Jews, foreigners, asylum seekers¹ Jeffrey M. Peck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
7. The Persian gulf war and the Germans’ “Jewish questions”: transformations on the left Kizer Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Part three. Literature and sexuality
8. What keeps the Jews in Germany quiet? Rafael Seligmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
9. En-gendering bodies of memory: tracing the genealogy of identity in the work of Esther Dischereit, Barbara Honigmann, and Irene Dische Karen Remmler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
10. Male sexuality and contemporary Jewish literature in German: the damaged body as the image of the damaged soul Sander L. Gilman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Part four. Concluding voices
11. In defense of ambiguity Susan Neiman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
12. No exit from this Jewry Esther Dischereit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: August 1, 1994
ISBN: 9780814733462