ISBN:
0230604749
,
9780230604742
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 294 p)
,
25 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jewish Identity in Western Pop Culture : The Holocaust and Trauma Through Modernity
DDC:
305.892/401821
Keywords:
Popular culture History
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Jews Identity
;
Jews in popular culture
Abstract:
This book looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on aspects of its impact on popular culture
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: Producing the "Jewish Problem": Othering the Jews and Homogenizing Europe; Two: Life on the Edge: Liminality and the (European) Jews; Three: It Almost Needn't Have Been the Germans: The State, Colonial Violence, and the Holocaust; Four: The Wall at the End of the World: Zionism, Colonialism, Messianism; Five: The Banality of Representation: Generation, Holocaust, Signification, and Empire of the Senseless; Six: Trauma and Memory in the Post-Holocaust West
Description / Table of Contents:
Seven: Before Holocaust Memory: Making Sense of Trauma between Postmemory and Cultural MemoryEight: Why Were the Sixties So Jewish?; Nine: Punk, Jews, and the Holocaust: The English Story; Ten: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: What Being Jewish Has to Do with It; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-280) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
