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The Jews and Germany

From the 'Judeo-German Symbiosis' to the Memory of Auschwitz

The Jews and Germany( )
Author: Traverso, Enzo
Translator: Weissbort, Daniel
Series title:Texts and Contexts Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8032-4426-9
Publication Date:May 1995
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $71.50
Book Description:

The Jews and Germany debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the best in each other. Enzo Traverso argues that to the contrary, the attainments of Jews in the German-speaking world were due to the Jews aspiring to be German, with little help from and often against the open hostility of Germans. As the Holocaust proved in murder and theft, German Jews could never be German enough....
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: History / Jewish
History / Europe / Germany
Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
History / Modern / 20Th Century / Holocaust
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.919 x 22.352 x 2.489 cm
Book Weight:0.455 Kilograms
Author Biography
Traverso, Enzo (Author)
Daniel Weissbort was born in London, England on April 30, 1935. He studied history at Queens' College, Cambridge. After briefly working in his father's clothing factory, he took up research work in poetry in post-Stalinist Russia. He was the founder with Ted Hughes of Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT), a magazine that publishes the best of world poetry in translation, in 1965. Weissbort edited MPT until 2004. He worked as a professor of English and comparative literature and leader of a translation workshop at the University of Iowa. He edited numerous anthologies including An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets and was the author of collections of poetry including Letters to Ted. He died on November 18, 2013 at the age of 78.

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