Jewish identity in Western pop culture : the Holocaust and trauma through modernity / Jon Stratton.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index.

Producing the "Jewish problem" : othering the Jews and homogenizing Europe -- Life on the edge : liminality and the (European) Jews -- It almost needn't have been the Germans : the state, colonial violence, and the Holocaust -- The wall at the end of the world : Zionism, colonialism, Messianism -- The banality of representation : generation, Holocaust, signification, and Empire of the senseless -- Trauma and memory in the post-Holocaust west -- Before Holocaust memory : making sense of trauma between postmemory and cultural memory -- Why were the sixties so Jewish? -- Punk, Jews, and the Holocaust : the English story -- Buffy the vampire slayer : what being Jewish has to do with it.