Jewish Studies

The first collection of studies on queer Jewish Lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine (1870-1960).

This book provides a critical analysis of the emergent figure of the Jewish ghost in contemporary Polish popular culture, literature, critical art, and academic research.

»I have no other place ...« The study examines one way of how young immigrants actively construct belonging to Israel: by reproducing the ethno-nationalist discourse which promises a feeling of »home«.

Curious about their own Jewishness: This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of young Jewish American writers.

The relationship between Germany and Israel is shaped primarily by a culture of discourse of remembrance. This volume traces the more recent developments in this relationship towards a more transnational remembrance.

This book addresses the personal and collective abysses that may open when, albeit many years after the Holocaust, but in the very country of the murderers, one examines the legacy of the National Socialist extermination of Jews. Jewish Lebenswelt in Germany entails involvement of survivors and their sons and daughters, born after the Shoah, with the non-Jewish German world of Nazi perpetrators, supporters, bystanders and their children. Love relationships probably represent the most intimate contact between former victims and perpetrators, or their supporters.
This exploration of second-generation relationships in post-National-Socialist Germany is aimed at gaining deeper insights into what Theodor W. Adorno called the »culture after Auschwitz«. The true extent and significance of the chasm that did indeed emerge during the course of this endeavour only became apparent in retrospect. Therefore, an article about the »history« of working on »Love after Auschwitz« has been included.