Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Emigre Autobiography

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Abraham Rubin is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Dayton.

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This book explores the fraught relationship between religion, politics, and Holocaust memory from an autobiographical perspective.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Conversion and the Problem of Persuasion

1. Conversion and the Question of German Guilt in Karl Jakob Hirsch’s Heimkehr zu Gott (1946)

2. The Suppressed Jewish Voice in Alfred Döblin’s Schicksalsreise (1949)

3. Mixed Metaphors of Jewish Blindness in Karl Stern’s The Pillar of Fire (1951)

4. The Postwar Politics of Judeo-Christian Reconciliation and the Inability to Mourn in Heinrich Kronstein’s Briefe an einen jungen Deutschen (1967)

Conclusion: The Consolations of Christianity and the Inadequacy of Form

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