Ghosts of Home - The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

Zusatztext "The ability to observe! evaluate! and contextualize habits and specific objects is one of the greatest strengths of this book." Informationen zum Autor Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature! and Co-Director of the Institute of Research on Women and Gender! at Columbia University. She is the author of Family Frames: Photography! Narrative! and Postmemory ! among other books. Leo Spitzer is Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History Emeritus at Dartmouth College! and the author of many books! most recently Hotel Bolivia: A Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism. Klappentext 97391286 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. This memoir chronicles the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Part One "We would not have come without you!" 1998 1 / "Where are you from?" 2 / Vienna of the East 3 / Strolling the Herrengasse 4 / The Idea of Czernowitz 5 / "Are we really in the Soviet Union?" 6 / The Crossroads Part Two The Darker Side! 2000 7 / Maps to Nowhere 8 / The Spot on the Lapel 9 / "There was never a camp here!" 10 / "This was once my home" Part Three Ghosts of Home! 2006 11 / The Persistence of Czernowitz 12 / The Tile Stove Epilogue! 2008 Chernivtsi at Six Hundred Notes Selected Readings Index

Product details

• Authors: Marianne Hirsch, Marianne Spitzer Hirsch, Hirsch Marianne, Leo Spitzer, Spitzer Leo
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2010
• EAN: 9780520257726
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25772-6
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: University of California Press; A S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies (UPCCP); A S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Social and cultural history, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era