Ghosts of home: the afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish memory
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Main Author: Hirsch, Marianne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2010
Series:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the "Vienna of the East" under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II-yet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories of its dispersed people and passed down to their children like a precious and haunted heirloom. In this original blend of history and communal memoir, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer chronicle the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory. They find evidence of a cosmopolitan culture
Cover; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface; PART ONE: ""WE WOULD NOT HAVE COME WITHOUT YOU"" 1998; 1. ""Where are you from?""; 2. Vienna of the East; 3. Strolling the Herrengasse; 4. The Idea of Czernowitz; 5. ""Are we really in the Soviet Union?""; 6. The Crossroads; PART TWO: THE DARKER SIDE 2000; 7. Maps to Nowhere; 8. The Spot on the Lapel; 9. ""There was never a camp here!""; 10. ""This was once my home""; PART THREE: GHOSTS OF HOME 2006; 11. The Persistence of Czernowitz; 12. The Tile Stove; EPILOGUE 2008; Notes; Selected Readings; Index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 362 pages)
ISBN:0520257723
0520944909
1282359983
9780520257726
9780520944909
9781282359987

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