Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature

by Jessica Ortner

Examines how German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe who migrated to Germany during or after the Cold War have widened European cultural memory to include the traumas of the Gulag.

Preserving the memory of the Holocaust as a moral and ethical limit case is key to the European Union's attempt to construct a pan-European identity. But with the Eastern expansion of the EU, new member states have challenged the Holocaust's singularity, calling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140220
• ISBN13: 9781640140226
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"