Chapter 10. Departure, Finitude, and (Post-)Memories: Last Photos from Germany

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Jewish Photography in an Age of Extreme Uncertainty 1
4. PART I. PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE GERMAN-JEWISH EXPERIENCE
5. Chapter 1. Documenting, Exhibiting, and Contemplating Jewishness: A Brief History of German-Jewish Photography 27
6. Chapter 2. Reading Photographs of Jews in Nazi Germany: Functions, Compositions, Meanings 48
7. PART II. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ENCODING OF GERMAN-JEWISH LIVES
8. Chapter 3. A Site of Comfort and Defiance: Photographs of the Jewish Home in Nazi Germany 75
9. Chapter 4. Estranged Homeland: Exploring the Newly Nazified Landscapes 101
10. Chapter 5. Probing the Binaries of the German-Jewish Experience: The Photographed “Jewish Spaces” of the Third Reich 139
11. PART III. INCONCLUSIVE STORIES: JEWS’ VISUAL NARRATIVES IN THE FACE OF NAZISM
12. Chapter 6. With a Wink and a Nod: Arthur Freund’s Family Album as a Site of Memory and Its Deconstruction 175
13. Chapter 7. The Elusive Storyteller: The Two Narrators of Marianne Holländer’s Schooldays Album 195
14. Chapter 8. Abstractions as Pathos: Narrating Martha Maas’s (Fantasy of) Success in Nazi Berlin 211
15. Chapter 9. Montage Storytelling: Ambivalent Reflections on Jewishness and Emigration 230
16. Chapter 10. Departure, Finitude, and (Post-)Memories: Last Photos from Germany 248
17. Notes 267
18. Bibliography 311
19. Index 339
20. Acknowledgments 353