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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807234203321

Titolo

The Heimat abroad : the boundaries of Germanness / / edited by Krista O'Donnell, Renate Bridenthal, Nancy Ruth Reagin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-59391-9

9786612593918

0-472-02512-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 pages)

Collana

Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany

Altri autori (Persone)

O'DonnellK. Molly

BridenthalRenate

ReaginNancy Ruth <1960->

Disciplina

305.831

Soggetti

Germans - Foreign countries

Jews, German - Foreign countries

Population transfers - Germans

Regions & Countries - Europe

Germany

History & Archaeology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Chapter 5. Jews, Germans, or Americans? German-Jewish Immigrants in the Nineteenth-Century United States / Tobias Brinkmann""; ""Chapter 6. German Landscape: Local Promotion of the Heimat Abroad / Thomas Lekan""; ""Chapter 7. In Search of Home Abroad: German Jews in Brazil, 1933-45 / Jeffrey Lesser""; ""Part 3. Islands of Germanness""; ""Chapter 8. Germans from Russia: The Political Network of a Double Diaspora / Renate Bridenthal""; ""Chapter 9. When Is a Diaspora Not a Diaspora? Rethinking Nation-Centered Narratives about Germans in Habsburg East Central Europe / Pieter Judson""

""Chapter 10. German Brigadoon? Domesticity and Metropolitan Germans' Perceptions of Auslandsdeutschen in Southwest Africa and Eastern Europe / Nancy R. Reagin"""; "Chapter 11. Tenuousness and Tenacity: The Volksdeutschen of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen""; ""Chapter 12. The Politics of Homeland:



Irredentism and Reconciliation in the Policies of German Federal Governments and Expellee Organizations toward Ethnic German Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, 1949-99 / Stefan Wolff""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Index""