11. In defense of ambiguity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part one. Jewish life in Germany
7. 1. The contemporary German fascination for things Jewish: toward a minor Jewish culture 15
8. 2. A reemergence of German Jewry? 46
9. 3. Becoming strangers: Jews in Germany's five new provinces 62
10. Part two. Contemporary issues: politics, religion, and immigration
11. 4. What is "religion" among Jews in contemporary Germany? 77
12. 5. "What could be more fruitful, more healing, more purifying?" representations of Jews in the German media after 1989 113
13. 6. The "ins" and "outs" of the new Germany: Jews, foreigners, asylum seekers¹ 130
14. 7. The Persian gulf war and the Germans’ “Jewish questions”: transformations on the left 148
15. Part three. Literature and sexuality
16. 8. What keeps the Jews in Germany quiet? 173
17. 9. En-gendering bodies of memory: tracing the genealogy of identity in the work of Esther Dischereit, Barbara Honigmann, and Irene Dische 184
18. 10. Male sexuality and contemporary Jewish literature in German: the damaged body as the image of the damaged soul 210
19. Part four. Concluding voices
20. 11. In defense of ambiguity 253
21. 12. No exit from this Jewry 266
22. Index 283