Ghosts of home [electronic resource] : the afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish memory / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer.

ISBN:

9780520944909

Title:

Author:

Hirsch, Marianne.

Personal Author:

Hirsch, Marianne.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 362 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Series:

The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface; PART ONE: ""WE WOULD NOT HAVE COME WITHOUT YOU"" 1998; 1. ""Where are you from?""; 2. Vienna of the East; 3. Strolling the Herrengasse; 4. The Idea of Czernowitz; 5. ""Are we really in the Soviet Union?""; 6. The Crossroads; PART TWO: THE DARKER SIDE 2000; 7. Maps to Nowhere; 8. The Spot on the Lapel; 9. ""There was never a camp here!""; 10. ""This was once my home""; PART THREE: GHOSTS OF HOME 2006; 11. The Persistence of Czernowitz; 12. The Tile Stove; EPILOGUE 2008; Notes; Selected Readings; Index.

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Personal Subject:

Hirsch, Carl, 1912--Travel-Ukraine-Chernivt͡si.

Hirsch, Lotte, 1918--Travel-Ukraine-Chernivt͡si.

Subject Term:

Jews -- Ukraine -- Chernivt͡si -- History -- 20th century.

Jews -- Ukraine -- Chernivt͡si -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

Chernivt͡si (Ukraine) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.

Chernivt͡si (Ukraine) -- History -- 20th century.

Chernivt͡si (Ukraine) -- Description and travel.

Added Author:

Spitzer, Leo, 1939-

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2010

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Summary

In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the "Vienna of the East" under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II--yet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories of its dispersed people and passed down to their children like a precious and haunted heirloom. In this original blend of history and communal memoir, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer chronicle the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory. They find evidence of a cosmopolitan culture of nostalgic lore--but also of oppression, shattered promises, and shadows of the Holocaust in Romania. Hirsch and Spitzer present the first historical account of Jewish Czernowitz in the English language and offer a profound analysis of memory's echo across generations.

Author Notes

Hirsch Marianne :

Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Institute of Research on Women and Gender, at Columbia University. She is the author of Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory , among other books. Leo Spitzer is Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History Emeritus at Dartmouth College, and the author of many books, most recently Hotel Bolivia: A Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism.