German city, Jewish memory the story of Worms - Roemer, Nils H. (Brandeis University Press, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover -- Series -- Title Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: From Medieval Origins to the Enlightenment -- 1: Sacred Realms -- 2: Between Rituals and Texts -- 3: Christian Interlocutors and Jewish Memory -- II: Moving Local Jewish Heritage into Modernity and Its Destruction -- 4: Restoring the Lost Memory -- 5: Jewish Traveling Cultures of Remembrance -- 6: Worms 166; A Jewish Heimat on Borrowed Time -- III: After the Holocaust -- 7: Place and Displacement of Memory -- 8: Worms Out of the Ashes -- 9: The Presence of Absence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
A remarkable, in-depth study of Jewish history, culture, and memory in a historic and contemporary German city