Bodemann Y. Michal Bodemann

Jewish Family in Germany Today (eBook, PDF)

An Intimate Portrait

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Produktbeschreibung

Immediately after the Holocaust, it seemed inconceivable that a Jewish community would rebuild in Germany. What was once unimaginable has now come to pass: Germany is home to one of Europe's most vibrant Jewish communities, and it has the fastest growing Jewish immigrant population of any country in the world outside Israel. By sharing the life stories of members of one Jewish family-the Kalmans-Y. Michal Bodemann provides an intimate look at what it is like to live as a Jew in Germany today. Having survived concentration camps in Poland, four Kalman siblings-three brothers and a sister-were left stranded in Germany after the war. They built new lives and a major enterprise; they each married and had children. Over the past fifteen years Bodemann conducted extensive interviews with the Kalmans, mostly with the survivors' ten children, who were born between 1948 and 1964. In these oral histories, he shares their thoughts on Judaism, work, family, and community. Staying in Germany is not a given; four of the ten cousins live in Israel and the United States.Among the Kalman cousins are an art gallery owner, a body builder, a radio personality, a former chief financial officer of a prominent U.S. bank, and a sculptor. They discuss Zionism, anti-Semitism, what it means to root for the German soccer team, Schindler's List, money, success, marriage and intermarriage, and family history. They reveal their different levels of engagement with Judaism and involvement with local Jewish communities. Kalman is a pseudonym, and their anonymity allows the family members to talk with passion and candor about their relationships and their lives as Jews.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822385929
• Artikelnr.: 54912465

Autorenporträt

Y. Michal Bodemann is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Out of the Ashes: The Vicissitudes of the New German Jewry and the editor of Jews, Germans, Memory: Reconstructions of Jewish Life in Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Contemporary German Jewish Life through One Family 1
Prologue: Rita Volkov, Great Aunt in Toronto 37
Part 1. Albert's Family
Berthold and His Father 45
Working in the Kalmans' Firm 71
Berthold in His Life 79
Eva, Swiss Mentality, Polish Company 91
Ronnie, in and out of His Father's Shadow 108
Salek, Nordau's Jew 119
Esther, the Zionist Pioneer in Our Family 132
Gabriel, Postmodern Jew 156
Part 2. Ignaz and Dina
Ignaz, Dina's Father 179
Dina, from Germany to Israel and Back 187
Johannes Rautenstrauch, A Goy in the House 218
Part 3. Jerry Guterman
Jerry and the Fossils 233
Part 4. Jurek's Family
Jurek, Benjamin and His Brothers 249
Jonny, a Career in Israel 256
Lilian, Staying at Home 261
Motti, the Sculptor-Rememberer 268
Glossary 279