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Reclaiming Heimat - Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reemigres (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,348
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Reclaiming Heimat - Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reemigres (Hardcover): Jacqueline Vansant

Reclaiming Heimat - Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reemigres (Hardcover)

Jacqueline Vansant

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An examination of memoirs written after 1945 by Jewish Austrians mourning the loss of their homeland. In reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reeimigres - Ernst Lothar, Stella Klein-Low, Hans Thalberg, Minna Lachs, Franziska Tausig, Hilde Spiel, and Elisabeth Freundlich - who provide moving accounts of the profound loss of Heimat (home/homeland) and self and the desire to recover the loss in part by returning home. A disparate group with varying relationships to Judaism, they were nonetheless bound together by state-sanctioned anti-Semitism. As a result, their individual life stories reflect group experiences that are notably different from the collective memories of the general Austrian population. Vansant uses these autobiographical accounts to construct a useful framework to explore issues of individual and collective identity and cultural memory in an Austrian context. By examining the textual manifestations of the traumas of exile and return and the process of mourning the loss of homeland on rhetorical, thematic, and metaphorical levels, she reveals the difficulty in reconnecting to the Austrian ""we"" as a Jewish Austrian in postwar and post-Holocaust Austria. Reclaiming Heimat will interest students and scholars of Holocaust and Exile studies as well as German and Austrian literature. This book is also intended for a general readership interested in the aftermath of the Nazi era.

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Imprint: Wayne State University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2001
First published: October 2001
Authors: Jacqueline Vansant
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2951-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 0-8143-2951-9
Barcode: 9780814329511

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