Roemer, Nils H.

German city, Jewish memory : the story of Worms / Nils Roemer. - Waltham, MA : Hanover : Brandeis University Press ; Published by University Press of New England, ©2010. - 1 online resource : illustrations. - The Tauber institute for the study of European Jewry series . - Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Series -- Title Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: From Medieval Origins to the Enlightenment -- 1: Sacred Realms -- 2: Between Rituals and Texts -- 3: Christian Interlocutors and Jewish Memory -- II: Moving Local Jewish Heritage into Modernity and Its Destruction -- 4: Restoring the Lost Memory -- 5: Jewish Traveling Cultures of Remembrance -- 6: Worms 166; A Jewish Heimat on Borrowed Time -- III: After the Holocaust -- 7: Place and Displacement of Memory -- 8: Worms Out of the Ashes -- 9: The Presence of Absence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A remarkable, in-depth study of Jewish history, culture, and memory in a historic and contemporary German city.

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Jews--History.--Germany--Worms
HISTORY--Europe--Germany.
Ethnic relations.
Jews.
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East.
History & Archaeology.
Middle East.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General


Worms (Germany)--Ethnic relations.
Germany--Worms.


Electronic books.
History.

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