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The question of Heimat: Identity and alterity in contemporary German literature and film.
No full textThe German Heimat, so profoundly evocative of serenity and a sense of intimate belonging, could be said to come into its 'own' only when it threatens to become 'other,' that is, only when it is poised in opposition to the unprecedented threat of alienation and fragmentation brought by rapid social changes. Referring at once to family, childhood, native place, and/or homeland, the word Heimat may not hold the same significance for any two Germans, or from one German home to another. Nor has its meaning remained the same over time. A 'fiction' whose reality can be measured in the emotionally and ideologically charged battles of recent German cultural history, this ubiquitous idea of Heimat will be closely examined in the present dissertation from three different but interrelated perspectives on contemporary German film and literature.After an introduction which offers an overview of the concept and history of Heimat, the first chapter examines the (re)emergence of the Heimatfilme in postwar Germany and its counter-reaction with the rise of New German Cinema, focusing on Edgar Reitz's sixteen-hour film called, appropriately enough, Heimat. The second chapter examines the issues of identity and alienation in contemporary German-Jewish literature with a focus on Roman von einem Kinde of Barbara Honigmann, a German Jewish writer who makes her home in Strasbourg, France today, at the very border of Germany in both space and time, a fact that figures not incidentally in her work. Finally, the third chapter examines the so-called migrant literature that emerged with the influx of guest workers into the Federal Republic. With Bitte nix Polizei, Turkish born writer Aras Oren suggests how what was once called Germany's Gastarbeiterliteratur belongs essentially and simply to German literature itself. In all three works the question of Heimat presents a network of identity and alterity, belonging and alienation, as one negotiates present realities and future possibilities, while exposing the Heimat as a construction that is openly contested.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.School code: 0265
[Das Kriegsende].
No full textA short memoir about the final moments of World War 2, from a German soldier's perspective. Otto Enders worked as radio operator during the war. He came back to Germany in early summer 1944, and spent the last months with his unit in Austria, until armistice was declared. In June 1945 he returns to his hometown Frankfurt.The ancestors of Otto Enders a couple of generations ago were Jewish. He is a cousin of Engel Levison. Otto Enders was born in Frankfurt, Germany
Deda Schlossberg Miller and her sons, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Summer 2005
No full textLeft to right: Kenneth David Miller, Deda Schlossberg Miller, and Ross Eric Miler.Digital imageDigital finding aid
Gweru Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Gweru, Zimbabwe, Interior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Livingstone Hewbrew Congregation Synagogue, Livingstone, Zambia, Interior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Als der Sport in Ulm 1933 nationalsozialistisch wurde ... : ... und die jüdischen und sozialistischen Sportler aus dem Ulmer Sportgeschehen vertrieben wurden /
No full textThe manuscript contains historical background on the exclusion of Jews in athletic life in Ulm starting in 1933. There are four essays: "Hitlers Marchtergreifung und die Folgen für jüdische Sportlerinnen und Sportler" by Lorenz Peiffer; "Sport in Ulm 1933: Nationalsozialistischer Sport, Verbot der Arbeitersportbewegung, Ausschluss jüdischer Sportler" by Silvester Lechner; "Beispielege jüdischer Sportler in Ulm: Dr. Hugo Wallerstein, Walter Vollweiler, Kurt Hilb, Erich Hirsch" by Fritz Glauninger; "Hanna Mann und Margaret Lambert: Zwei jüdische Sportlerinnen der Region" by Natalja Kurz.digitize
Harare Hebrew (Ashkenazi) Congregation Synagogue, Harare, Zimbabwe, Exterior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Gweru Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Gweru, Zimbabwe, Exterior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Progressive Jewish Congregation Synagogue, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Exterior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
9. November 1938 - 9. November 2005 - gegen das Vergessen : Materialsammlung zur Gespraechsrunde im Regionalmuseum Alsfeld.
No full textClippings, copied documents (correspondence, photographs, etc.) and explanatory texts commemorating “Kristallnacht’s” 67th anniversary in the town of Alsfeld in Hesse, Germany