The Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust: Trauma and Its Influence on Identity Changes of Survivors and their Descendants

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Broadening Perspectives. Introduction 1
4. DIASPORA AND MINORITY ISSUES
5. Identity and Migration
6. Is Translation Diasporic? A Confrontation between Franz Rosenzweig and Yehuda Halevi 15
7. Saint Vardan’s Day in the Diaspora and the Republic of Armenia: Similarities and Differences. The Use of Art, Literature, and Language in Celebrations 29
8. Yiddish Songs as an Identificatory Idiom in the Diaspora: Die schönsten Lieder der Ostjuden, Arranged by Darius Milhaud, Stefan Wolpe, and Alvin Curran 51
9. “If you see me walking alone on the road”: Sephardic Songs of Exile, Expulsion, Memory – and Return 75
10. Experience of Alterity
11. Jewish and Armenian Students at German Universities from the End of the Nineteenth Century and until the Outbreak of World War I 97
12. “The Jews of Caucasus”: Perception of Armenians in the German and Polish Travel Literature 115
13. “Natural Born Actors” on the Screen: Das alte Gesetz (1923) and the Theatricality of the Modern Jewish Experience 131
14. AGHET AND SHOAH
15. Experience – Memory – Self-understanding
16. Between Armenian Praise and Zionist Critique: Henry Morgenthau and the Jews of the Ottoman Empire 159
17. The Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust: Trauma and Its Influence on Identity Changes of Survivors and their Descendants 181
18. Memory in Motion: Armenian Youth and New Forms of Engagement with the Past 199
19. Cultural Representations: Identity Constructions and Negotiation Processes
20. Collective Memory in Israeli Popular Music: (Re)constructions across Generations 217
21. Historical Awareness in Zavèn Bibérian’s Autobiographical Longer Fragment: A Rare Perception of both Armenian and Jewish Sufferings 227
22. “Global Solidarity is Something to Warm the Cockles of Your Heart”: Holocaust and Genocide in Ephraim Kishon’s “Israeli Satire” 245
23. Persistent Parallels, Resistant Particularities: Holocaust Analogies and Avoidance in Armenian Genocide Centennial Cinema 267
24. Contributors
25. Authors 297
26. Editors 301
27. Index of Subjects 303
28. Index of Names 307