Max Czollek

De-Integrate! (eBook, ePUB)

A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century
Übersetzer: Cho-Polizzi, Jon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the pastand a handbook for minorities on how to embrace their difference and resist rising nationalism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and racism.

Max Czollek's De-Integrate! is a polemical, often humorous examination of Jewish life in contemporary Germany that speaks to the position of minorities the world over. Rooted in sociological theory, the book offers an engaging and approachable critique of Germany's much-lauded traditions of memory culture and Vergangenheitsbewältigungits successful negotiation of its Nazi past.

Although modern Reunified Germany presents itself as having overcome historical trauma and integrated its now diverse, multicultural society, Czollek argues that this public image is merely a Theater of Integration: showcasing those minoritized stories to bolster Germany's positive self-image, while sidelining the true potential of the country's radical diversity. Czollek posits that today's German minorities must embrace their differences and de-integrate from mainstream society in order to counter the rise of rightwing nationalism.

On the one hand a stirring look at integration, belonging, and cultural diversity, and on the other a passionate denunciation of bigotry and virulent nationalism, De-Integrate! speaks across cultural, racial, and national divisions and points to a livelier future for all of us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Restless Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781632063199
• Artikelnr.: 67270179

Autorenporträt

Max Czollek is a poet, publicist, and political scientist. He received his doctorate from the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technische Universität Berlin and is particularly well known for his theatrical and essayistic work surrounding memory culture, integration, and Jewish identity in post-war Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: De-Integrate Yourselves!
Chapter 1 The Theater of Memory: Staged Remembrance
Chapter 2 Normality Reloaded: Schlaaaaand
Chapter 3 The Early Years: Integrating Nazis
Chapter 4 Integration Theater! Leitkultur and Ministries of Heimat
Chapter 5 That German Desire: On the Function of the Jews
Chapter 6 Wowschwitz, or: Can We Laugh about Auschwitz?
Chapter 7 Alternatives for Germans: What We Can Learn from the AfD
Chapter 8 ?No Integration?: De-Integration and Its Progenitors
Chapter 9 Like They Do in Babylon: On Jewish Diversity
Chapter 10 Inglourious Poets: Revenge as Self-Empowerment
Chapter 11 Ahasver's Hell: Or, Things Will Never Be 'All Good' Again
Chapter 12 The Beginning Is Nigh: DE-INTEGRATIЯ
Acknowledgments
References