Armenian and Jewish experience between expulsion and destruction / edited by Sarah M. Ross and Regina Randhofer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ross, Sarah, 1977- editor.

Randhofer, Regina, 1958- editor.

Series:

Europäisch-jüdische Studien. Beiträge ; Volume 51.

Europäisch-jüdische Studien. Beiträge ; Volume 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenian diaspora.

Armenians--History.

Armenians.

Jews--History.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

The series European-Jewish Studies reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Particular emphasis is placed on the way in which history, the humanities and cultural sciences approach the subject, as well as on fundamental intellectual, political and religious questions that inspire Jewish life and thinking today, and have influenced it in the past.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Broadening Perspectives. Introduction

DIASPORA AND MINORITY ISSUES

Identity and Migration

Is Translation Diasporic? A Confrontation between Franz Rosenzweig and Yehuda Halevi

Saint Vardan's Day in the Diaspora and the Republic of Armenia: Similarities and Differences. The Use of Art, Literature, and Language in Celebrations

Yiddish Songs as an Identificatory Idiom in the Diaspora: Die schönsten Lieder der Ostjuden, Arranged by Darius Milhaud, Stefan Wolpe, and Alvin Curran

"If you see me walking alone on the road": Sephardic Songs of Exile, Expulsion, Memory - and Return

Experience of Alterity

Jewish and Armenian Students at German Universities from the End of the Nineteenth Century and until the Outbreak of World War I

"The Jews of Caucasus": Perception of Armenians in the German and Polish Travel Literature

"Natural Born Actors" on the Screen: Das alte Gesetz (1923) and the Theatricality of the Modern Jewish Experience

AGHET AND SHOAH

Experience - Memory - Self-understanding

Between Armenian Praise and Zionist Critique: Henry Morgenthau and the Jews of the Ottoman Empire

The Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust: Trauma and Its Influence on Identity Changes of Survivors and their Descendants

Memory in Motion: Armenian Youth and New Forms of Engagement with the Past

Cultural Representations: Identity Constructions and Negotiation Processes

Collective Memory in Israeli Popular Music: (Re)constructions across Generations

Historical Awareness in Zavèn Bibérian's Autobiographical Longer Fragment: A Rare Perception of both Armenian and Jewish Sufferings

"Global Solidarity is Something to Warm the Cockles of Your Heart": Holocaust and Genocide in Ephraim Kishon's "Israeli Satire"

Persistent Parallels, Resistant Particularities: Holocaust Analogies and Avoidance in Armenian Genocide Centennial Cinema

Contributors

Authors

Editors

Index of Subjects

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes indexes.

Other Format:

Print version: Ross, Sarah M. Armenian and Jewish Experience Between Expulsion and Destruction

ISBN:

3-11-069540-5

OCLC:

1287136291