Taberner, S orcid.org/0000-0002-3913-9363 (2021) Re-articulations of German-Jewish Identity in Adriana Altaras’s titos brille and Dmitrij Kapitelman’s Das Lächeln meines unsichtbaren Vaters. German Studies Review, 44 (2). pp. 359-377. ISSN 0149-7952
Abstract
This article examines the emergence of new forms of German Jewish identity after unification, the arrival of over 200,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union, and the fading of the generation of Holocaust survivors. It is argued that Adriana Altaras's titos brille (2015) and Dmitrij Kapitelman's Das Lächeln meines unsichtbaren Vaters (2016) suggest a spectrum of potential actualizations of German Jewish identity along three related axes: continuity↔innovation; apartness↔normalization; and particularity↔cosmopolitanism. More generally, the article proposes that these axes might structure a comprehensive examination of the growing corpus of fiction by authors with a Jewish background to which the two novels belong.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 by The German Studies Association. This is an author produced version of an article, published in German Studies Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > German (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Apr 2020 11:43 |
Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2021 14:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1353/gsr.2021.0043 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:159540 |