German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion: Writing the Jewish Self 9783110731965, 9783110737226, 9783111270753

This book explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story of one family a

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German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion: Writing the Jewish Self
9783110731965, 9783110737226, 9783111270753

Writing the Jewish Self explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story o

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After 1945, Jewish writing in German was almost unimaginable-and then only in reference to the Shoah. Only in the 1980s,

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After 1945, Jewish writing in German was almost unimaginable—and then only in reference to the Shoah. Only in the 1980s,

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Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jew

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As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers,

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The definitive history of conversion and assimilation of Jews in Europe and America from the eighteenth century to the p

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"I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and profligate to the

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What happens when Jewish authors—whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination—tr

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To understand the situation of the Jewish Defense League in the United States, Janet Dolgin spent fourteen months with t

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Rainbow Jews deals with the intersection of gay and Jewish identity in American and Israeli film and theater, from the 1

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