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Resettlers and Survivors

Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945-89

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Located on the border of present-day Romania and Ukraine, the historical region of Bukovina was the site of widespread displacement and violence as it passed from Romanian to Soviet hands and back again during World War II. This study focuses on two groups of "Bukovinians"--ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews--as they navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in and after 1945. Through comparisons of the narratives and self-conceptions of these groups, Resettlers and Survivors gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring Bukovina's significance for them as both a geographical location and a "place of memory."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-04-01
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt594 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWorlds of Memory
Antal sidor304
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781789206678

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AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: BackgroundChapter 1. Being Bukovinian before 1945: German and Jewish Bukovinians in the Habsburg Empire, Romania, and World War IIPart II: EstablishmentsChapter 2. 'Settling in the Motherland': 'Resettlers' from Bukovina in West Germany after World War IIChapter 3. 'A remarkable branch of the Jewish people': Survivors from Bukovina between Romania and Israel after World War IIPart III: EntanglementsChapter 4. 'Lost Home' and 'Area of Expulsion': Compensating for Loss at the Height of the Cold WarChapter 5. 'Sunken Cultural Landscape': Reimagining Bukovina through the Lens of LiteratureConclusionBibliographyIndex

"By establishing a new approach for Bukovina research, Resettlers and Survivors makes the reverberations of World War II visible for Europe as a whole and particularly for Bukovina Germans and Jews. It offers answers to how and why their experiences effected new conceptualizations of the past, of identity, and of home." Markus Winkler, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich"Gaelle Fisher manages, on the one hand, to provide insight into a lesser-known episode in the history of World War II. At the same time, through her own interpretation of the historical record, she illustrates through this special case a theoretical issue relevant to the concepts essential for a sociopolitical understanding of modernity and postmodernity: identity, alterity, difference, space, place, and memory." Andrei Corbea-Hoisie, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania