Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature

by Jessica Ortner

Preserving the memory of the Holocaust as a moral and ethical limit case is key to the European Union's attempt to construct a pan-European identity. But with the Eastern expansion of the EU, new member states have challenged the Holocaust's singularity, calling for the traumas of the Stalinist Gulag to be acknowledged much more explicitly. Thus even though Europe has been unified politically, it is divided by its diverging perceptions of the past.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140220
• ISBN13: 9781640140226
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"