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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791650003321

Autore

Roemer Nils H

Titolo

German city, Jewish memory [[electronic resource] ] : the story of Worms / / Nils Roemer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, MA, : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : Published by University Press of New England, c2010

ISBN

1-282-89571-0

9786612895715

1-58465-947-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

The Tauber institute for the study of European Jewry series

Disciplina

943/.4352004924

Soggetti

Jews - Germany - Worms - History

Worms (Germany) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

From medieval origins to the enlightenment: observing the past -- Sacred realms -- Between rituals and texts -- Christian interlocutors and Jewish memory -- Restoring the lost memory -- Jewish traveling cultures of remembrance -- Worms: a Jewish Heimat on borrowed time -- Place and displacement of memory -- Worms out of the ashes -- The presence of absence.

Sommario/riassunto

A remarkable, in-depth study of Jewish history, culture, and memory in a historic and contemporary German city