What was life like for Jews who wanted to return to their former
homes in Europe after the Holocaust? In Home after Fascism, Anna
Koch draws on a rich array of interviews, correspondence, and
archival research to tell the first-person homecoming stories of
Jews in East Germany, West Germany, and Italy and explore the
variety of ways they reconnected to the countries that had
destroyed their homes, ostracized them, and killed and imprisoned
their loved ones. Even as returning Jews worked to recover lost or
looted homes and possessions, they also struggled to make sense of
their persecution and find a way to reclaim a sense of home.
Essential to that reconnection, Koch argues, was the development of
"emotional communities," which helped returnees process and
reinterpret their feelings toward the countries they had fled for
their lives and safety. Jews in West Germany emphasized detachment
and marking their distance to justify living in a "country of
murderers"; communists of Jewish origin in East Germany stressed an
emotional connection to their comrades; and Italian Jews' emphasis
on the historical attachment to their homeland highlighted their
belonging within the national community of Italy. Comparative, wide
ranging, and often moving, Home after Fascism? reveals the
determined resilience of a displaced generation of Jewish people
following different paths across Europe to recover the feeling,
reality, and power of home.
General
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
The Modern Jewish Experience |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
Anna Koch
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
320 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-253-06696-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-253-06696-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780253066961 |
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