Abiding in a Haunted Land: The Issue of Heimat in Contemporary German-Jewish Writing
1997; Duke University Press; Issue: 70 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/488503
ISSN1558-1462
Autores Tópico(s)Literature and Cultural Memory
ResumoHomeland? No thank you! [Heimat? Nein Danke!] is Henryk Broder's decisive verdict on the issue of national belonging.1 The son of Holocaust survivors and thus a typical representative of the Second Generation, Broder moved as a child with his parents from his native Poland to West Germany, but refuses to recognize the latter as his Heimat. Neither the fact that he writes in German nor that his readership is Germanspeaking alters his conviction. In 1981 he left the Federal Republic in the wake of impenetrable antisemitic/anti-Israel feelings among his friends on the German New Left.2 He settled in Israel, but found that the Jewish state could not offer him a satisfactory sense of Heimat either. Since 1981 Broder has been dividing his time between Berlin and Jerusalem: a Jew in Germany, a non-resident holding a German passport in Israel. He
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