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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Changing Definitions of Germanness across Three Generations of Yekkes in Palestine/Israel
Contributor:
Kranz, Dani
imprint:
Project MUSE, 2016
Published in:German Studies Review
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1353/gsr.2016.0008
ISSN:
2164-8646
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p xml:lang="en"> German-speaking Jews arrived in Palestine in vast numbers from 1933 onwards. They are not Olim (ascenders, Jewish immigrants to Palestine/Israel) in the classical, Zionistic sense but emigrated out of necessity from Europe. Their history in Europe, and their arrival in Palestine reflect a particular integration into the nascent Jewish society, and resulted in a pronounced particularism that was transmitted across generations. To understand the interdependence of self-definition and superimposed ascription within a society that aims at absorbing immigrants, this paper chronicles the different definitions of Germanness amongst three generations of Yekkes (German-speaking Jews) in Palestine, later Israel, by focusing on community building, familial tradition, and everyday praxes of expressing Germanness.</jats:p>