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Today, more than 75 years after the Holocaust and World War II, antisemitism remains a poisonous force in European culture and politics, whether cloaked in the garb of reactionary nationalism or manifested in outright physical violence. Nothing New in Europe? provides a sobering look at the persistence of European antisemitism today through fifteen interviews with Jewish Israelis living in Germany, Poland, France, and other countries, supplemented with in-depth scholarly essays. The interviewees draw upon their lived experiences to reflect on anti-Jewish rhetoric, the role of Israel, and the relationship between antisemitism and the persecution of other minorities

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 "A Vivid Sense of Strangeness" -- Chapter 2 A Different Kind of Nationalism -- Chapter 3 The "Prize-Winning Ox" in "Dollaria" -- Chapter 4 Secular Pilgrim or Zionist Tourist? -- Chapter 5 The "Botched University" -- Chapter 6 "A Genuine Symbiosis" -- Chapter 7 The "Bug-Infested House" -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Der Band präsentiert eine 1931/32 von Charlotte Weisl verfasste jüdische Familiengeschichte, die über sieben Generationen und drei Jahrhunderte bis zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg zurückreicht. Die Wanderschaft böhmischer Juden beginnt in kleinen Landgemeinden und führt über Prag nach Wien, wo der jüdische Emanzipations- und Assimilationsprozess durch die persönliche Begegnung mit dem Zionismus in der Gestalt Theodor Herzls eine neue Wendung nimmt. Der Erste Weltkrieg und der sich bereits bedrohlich abzeichnende Eintritt in das "Zeitalter Hitlers" sind die weiteren einschneidenden politischen Ereignisse. Der Band enthält den kommentierten Text, eine ausführliche monographische Einleitung sowie eine Zeittafel, die einen Überblick über das politische, sozial- und kulturgeschichtliche Umfeld vermittelt.

In the wake of the Nazi regime's policies, European Jewish cultural property was dispersed, dislocated, and destroyed. Books, manuscripts, and artworks were either taken by their fleeing owners and were transferred to different places worldwide, or they fell prey to systematic looting and destruction under German occupation. Until today, a significant amount of items can be found in private and public collections in Germany as well as abroad with an unclear or disputed provenance. Contested Heritage. Jewish Cultural Property after 1945 illuminates the political and cultural implications of Jewish cultural property looted and displaced during the Holocaust. The volume includes seventeen essays, accompanied by newly discovered archival material and illustrations, which address a wide range of topics: from the shifting meaning and character of the objects themselves, the so-called object biographies, their restitution processes after 1945, conflicting ideas about their appropriate location, political interests in their preservation, actors and networks involved in salvage operations, to questions of intellectual and cultural transfer processes revolving around the moving objects and their literary resonances. Thus, it offers a fascinating insight into lesser-known dimensions of the aftermath of the Holocaust and the history of Jews in postwar Europe.