Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory by Hirsch, Marianne

Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520271258)

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Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory by Hirsch, Marianne

Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

$29.95
Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory by Hirsch, Marianne

Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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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: Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer
ISBN-10: 0520271254
ISBN-13: 9780520271258
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2011
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
By Marianne Hirsch
By Marianne Hirsch
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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.

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