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The Nile on eBay   Reclaiming Heimat by Jacqueline Vansant This is an examination of memoirs written after 1945 by Jewish Austrians mourning the loss of their Heimat (home/homeland). The author uses these autobiographical accounts to construct a framework to explore issues of individual and collective identity and cultural memory in an Austrian context. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description An examination of memoirs written after 1945 by Jewish Austrians mourning the loss of their homeland. In reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reeimigres - Ernst Lothar, Stella Klein-Low, Hans Thalberg, Minna Lachs, Franziska Tausig, Hilde Spiel, and Elisabeth Freundlich - who provide moving accounts of the profound loss of Heimat (home/homeland) and self and the desire to recover the loss in part by returning home. A disparate group with varying relationships to Judaism, they were nonetheless bound together by state-sanctioned anti-Semitism. As a result, their individual life stories reflect group experiences that are notably different from the collective memories of the general Austrian population. Vansant uses these autobiographical accounts to construct a useful framework to explore issues of individual and collective identity and cultural memory in an Austrian context. By examining the textual manifestations of the traumas of exile and return and the process of mourning the loss of homeland on rhetorical, thematic, and metaphorical levels, she reveals the difficulty in reconnecting to the Austrian ""we"" as a Jewish Austrian in postwar and post-Holocaust Austria. Reclaiming Heimat will interest students and scholars of Holocaust and Exile studies as well as German and Austrian literature. This book is also intended for a general readership interested in the aftermath of the Nazi era. Review Jacqueline Vansant shows the complicated search for homeland and identity by a small group of expelled Austrian Jewish reémigrés in an anti-Semitc society. Reclaiming Heimat is a fascinating and important contribution to Austria's post war history.--Helga Embacher "Institut für Geschichte, Universität Salzburg"Vansant has written a study which, in its balance of scholarship, pellucid thinking, and clarity of presentation, makes for a fascinating read. . . . Vansant's book will find a wide readership.-- "Biography"Vansant's analysis presents a vivid account of the struggles these reemigres confronted in reconciling what it means to be Jewish and Austrian in post-Holocaust Austria.-- "Central European History" Promotional In Reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reéimigrés who provide moving accounts of the profound loss of Heimat (home/homeland) and self and the desire to recover the loss in part by returning home. Review Quote Vansant's analysis presents a vivid account of the struggles these reemigres confronted in reconciling what it means to be Jewish and Austrian in post-Holocaust Austria. Promotional "Headline" In Reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian re Details ISBN0814329519 Author Jacqueline Vansant Short Title RECLAIMING HEIMAT Publisher Wayne State University Press Language English ISBN-10 0814329519 ISBN-13 9780814329511 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2001 Imprint Wayne State University Press Subtitle Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reemigres Place of Publication Detroit, MI Country of Publication United States Birth 1954 Residence MI, US Translated from English DOI 10.1604/9780814329511 AU Release Date 2001-09-01 NZ Release Date 2001-09-01 UK Release Date 2001-09-01 Pages 245 DEWEY 943.6050922 Illustrations 17 illustrations Audience Undergraduate Publication Date 2001-09-30 US Release Date 2001-09-30 Country of Origin US Product Class Description Autobiography: General We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126508199; , von Profianbieter, Neu, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], ISBN-13: 9780814329511, Book Title: Reclaiming Heimat, [PU: Wayne State University Press]<

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In Reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reéimigrés who provide moving accounts of the profound loss of Heimat (home/homeland) and self… Mehr…

In Reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reéimigrés who provide moving accounts of the profound loss of Heimat (home/homeland) and self and the desire to recover the loss in part by returning home.In Reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reéimigrés—Ernst Lothar, Stella Klein-Low, Hans Thalberg, Minna Lachs, Franziska Tausig, Hilde Spiel, and Elisabeth Freundlich—who provide moving accounts of the profound loss of Heimat (home/homeland) and self and the desire to recover the loss in part by returning home. A disparate group with varying relationships to Judaism, they were nonetheless bound together by state-sanctioned anti-Semitism. As a result, their individual life stories reflect group experiences that are notably different from the collective memories of the general Austrian population. Vansant uses these autobiographical accounts to construct a useful framework to explore issues of individual and collective identity and cultural memory in an Austrian context. By examining the textual manifestations of the traumas of exile and return and the process of mourning the loss of homeland on rhetorical, thematic, and metaphorical levels, she reveals the difficulty in reconnecting to the Austrian we as a Jewish Austrian in postwar and post-Holocaust Austria.Reclaiming Heimat will interest students and scholars of Holocaust and Exile studies as well as German and Austrian literature. This book is also intended for a general readership interested in the aftermath of the Nazi era. Trade Books>Hardcover>Religion,Inspiration>Judaica>Judaica Hist,Th, Wayne State University Press Core >2<

2001, ISBN: 9780814329511

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Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reemigres, Buch, Hardcover, An examination of memoirs written after 1945 by Jewish Austrians mourning the loss of their homeland. In reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reeimigres - Ernst Lothar, Stella Klein-Low, Hans Thalberg, Minna Lachs, Franziska Tausig, Hilde Spiel, and Elisabeth Freundlich - who provide moving accounts of the profound loss of Heimat (home/homeland) and self and the desire to recover the loss in part by returning home. A disparate group with varying relationships to Judaism, they were nonetheless bound together by state-sanctioned anti-Semitism. As a result, their individual life stories reflect group experiences that are notably different from the collective memories of the general Austrian population. Vansant uses these autobiographical accounts to construct a useful framework to explore issues of individual and collective identity and cultural memory in an Austrian context. By examining the textual manifestations of the traumas of exile and return and the process of mourning the loss of homeland on rhetorical, thematic, and metaphorical levels, she reveals the difficulty in reconnecting to the Austrian ""we"" as a Jewish Austrian in postwar and post-Holocaust Austria. Reclaiming Heimat will interest students and scholars of Holocaust and Exile studies as well as German and Austrian literature. This book is also intended for a general readership interested in the aftermath of the Nazi era. [PU: Wayne State University Press], Seiten: 245, Wayne State University Press, 2001<

2001, ISBN: 0814329519

[EAN: 9780814329511], Neubuch, [PU: Wayne State University Press, US], SOCIETY AND CULTURE, An examination of memoirs written after 1945 by Jewish Austrians mourning the loss of their hom… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780814329511], Neubuch, [PU: Wayne State University Press, US], SOCIETY AND CULTURE, An examination of memoirs written after 1945 by Jewish Austrians mourning the loss of their homeland. In reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reeimigres - Ernst Lothar, Stella Klein-Low, Hans Thalberg, Minna Lachs, Franziska Tausig, Hilde Spiel, and Elisabeth Freundlich - who provide moving accounts of the profound loss of Heimat (home/homeland) and self and the desire to recover the loss in part by returning home. A disparate group with varying relationships to Judaism, they were nonetheless bound together by state-sanctioned anti-Semitism. As a result, their individual life stories reflect group experiences that are notably different from the collective memories of the general Austrian population. Vansant uses these autobiographical accounts to construct a useful framework to explore issues of individual and collective identity and cultural memory in an Austrian context. By examining the textual manifestations of the traumas of exile and return and the process of mourning the loss of homeland on rhetorical, thematic, and metaphorical levels, she reveals the difficulty in reconnecting to the Austrian ""we"" as a Jewish Austrian in postwar and post-Holocaust Austria. Reclaiming Heimat will interest students and scholars of Holocaust and Exile studies as well as German and Austrian literature. This book is also intended for a general readership interested in the aftermath of the Nazi era., Books<

2001, ISBN: 0814329519

[EAN: 9780814329511], Neubuch, [PU: Wayne State University Press, US], SOCIETY AND CULTURE, An examination of memoirs written after 1945 by Jewish Austrians mourning the loss of their hom… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780814329511], Neubuch, [PU: Wayne State University Press, US], SOCIETY AND CULTURE, An examination of memoirs written after 1945 by Jewish Austrians mourning the loss of their homeland. In reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reeimigres - Ernst Lothar, Stella Klein-Low, Hans Thalberg, Minna Lachs, Franziska Tausig, Hilde Spiel, and Elisabeth Freundlich - who provide moving accounts of the profound loss of Heimat (home/homeland) and self and the desire to recover the loss in part by returning home. A disparate group with varying relationships to Judaism, they were nonetheless bound together by state-sanctioned anti-Semitism. As a result, their individual life stories reflect group experiences that are notably different from the collective memories of the general Austrian population. Vansant uses these autobiographical accounts to construct a useful framework to explore issues of individual and collective identity and cultural memory in an Austrian context. By examining the textual manifestations of the traumas of exile and return and the process of mourning the loss of homeland on rhetorical, thematic, and metaphorical levels, she reveals the difficulty in reconnecting to the Austrian ""we"" as a Jewish Austrian in postwar and post-Holocaust Austria. Reclaiming Heimat will interest students and scholars of Holocaust and Exile studies as well as German and Austrian literature. This book is also intended for a general readership interested in the aftermath of the Nazi era., Books<