Ghosts of home :: the afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish memory /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Hirsch, Marianne
Weitere Verfasser: Spitzer, Leo, 1939-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Schriftenreihe:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxiv, 362 pages :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520944909
0520944909

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