Dear List Members,
With apologies for the self-promotion and possible cross posting, I am happy to announce that my book, Resettlers and Survivors: Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989 is now out with Berghahn Books. It is available both as a hard back and an ebook. You will find a description below and can read the introduction for free on the Berghahn website.
The hard copy's price tag is rather high but for the next two months, Berghahn is offering 50% off with the discount code FIS678. This limited time code is valid through June 30, 2020 (print copies only) on orders placed directly via the Berghahn book webpage. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/FisherResettlers
If you think it might be of interest, I would be grateful if you might consider recommending this book for purchase to your librarian.
Best wishes,
Gaelle Fisher
DESCRIPTION
Located on the border of present-day Romania and Ukraine, the historical region of Bukovina was the site of widespread displacement and violence as it passed from Romanian to Soviet hands and back again during World War II. This study focuses on two groups of “Bukovinians”—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—as they navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in and after 1945. Through comparisons of the narratives and self-conceptions of these groups, Resettlers and Survivors gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring Bukovina’s significance for them as both a geographical location and a “place of memory.”
REVIEWS
“By establishing a new approach for Bukovina research, Resettlers and Survivors makes the reverberations of World War II visible for Europe as a whole and particularly for Bukovina Germans and Jews. It offers answers to how and why their experiences effected new conceptualizations of the past, of identity, and of home.” • Markus Winkler, LMU Munich
“Gaëlle Fisher manages, on the one hand, to provide insight into a lesser-known episode in the history of World War II. At the same time, through her own interpretation of the historical record, she illustrates through this special case a theoretical issue relevant to the concepts essential for a sociopolitical understanding of modernity and postmodernity: identity, alterity, difference, space, place, and memory.” • Andrei Corbea-Hoişie, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania
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Dr. Gaëlle Fisher
Postdoctoral Researcher / Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Center for Holocaust Studies / Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien
Institut für Zeitgeschichte
Leonrodstr. 52
80636 München
Postal Address / Postadresse:
Leonrodstr. 46b
80636 München
Tel.: +49 (0)89 552790717
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Internet: http://www.holocaust-studien.de
Now out: Resettlers and Survivors: Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/FisherResettlers
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