LEADER 03361cam a22004578i 4500001 291998 005 20240624132637.0 008 231125s2023 inu b 001 0 eng 010 2023015445 020 9780253066954 |q(hardcover) 020 9780253066961 |q(paperback) 020 |z9780253066978 |q(pdf) 035 (DLC) 2023015445 035 (DLC)291998 042 pcc 043 e-it---e-gx--- 040 LBSOR |beng |erda |cLBSOR |dDLC 050 00 DS135.I8 |bK63 2023 084 HIS043000REL040000 |2bisacsh 082 00 943/.00492400904 |223/eng/20230809 100 1 Koch, Anna |c(Lecturer), |eauthor. 245 10 Home after fascism : |bItalian and German Jews after the Holocaust / |cAnna Koch. 246 30 Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust 263 2311 264 1 Bloomington, Indiana : |bIndiana University Press, |c[2023] 300 pages cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 0 The modern Jewish experience 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Returning home? -- Entangled memories -- Reclaiming home -- Belonging -- Conclusion: the old house and its shadows. 520 "Home after Fascism draws on a rich array of memoirs, interviews, correspondence, and archival research to tell the stories of Italian and German Jews who returned to their home countries after the Holocaust. The book reveals Jews' complex and often changing feelings toward their former homes and highlights the ways in which three distinct national contexts-East German, West German, and Italian-shaped their answers to the question, is this home? Returning Italian and German Jews renegotiated their place in national communities that had targeted them for persecution and extermination. While most Italian Jews remained deeply attached to their home country, German Jews struggled to feel at home in the "country of murderers." Yet, some retained a sense of belonging through German culture and language or felt attached to a specific region or city. Still others looked to the future; socialist and communists of Jewish origin hoped to build a better Germany in the Soviet Occupied Zone. In all three postwar states, surviving Jews fought against persistent antisemitism, faced the challenge of recovering lost homes and possessions, struggled to make sense of their persecution, and tried to find ways to reclaim a sense of belonging. Wide ranging and moving, Home after Fascism enriches our understanding of Jews' homecoming experiences after 1945. It reveals the deep affection and persistent love people feel for their homes, the suffering that comes with losing them, and the challenges of a return"-- |cProvided by publisher. 591 Record updated by Marcive brief record update service 24 June 2024 599 Shelved at 48-5-6 650 0 Jews |zItaly |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Jews |zGermany |xHistory |y1945-1990. 650 7 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust. |2bisacsh 650 7 RELIGION / Judaism / General. |2bisacsh 776 08 |iOnline version:Koch, Anna (Lecturer). |tHome after fascism |dBloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023] |z9780253066978 |w(DLC) 2023015446 852 0 |breceiving |kShelved at 48-5-6