Jews and Germans: an outdated binary? Jews, love, and relationships in contemporary Germany
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This paper analyzes the seemingly outdated binary Jews and Germans on the level of power relations and lived experiences. By analyzing an in-depth interview, it shows how the violent past of National Socialism and the Shoah reaches into the present and into love relationships. The case study illustrates that the categories ‘Jews’ and ‘German’ are needed as analytical tools to understand these aftermaths. In conclusion, the contribution argues that while the categories can be appropriated and lived in an agentic way, the binary is useful to capture and analyze positionalities and power relations.
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Jewish Identity Family and Household Marriage Intermarriage Singles Main Topic: Other Interviews Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any med-ium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this articlehas been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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Jews and Germans: an outdated binary? Jews, love, and relationships in contemporary Germany. 2024: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/1462169X.2024.2367847
