Between liminality and transit

Ondertitel:the Jewish cemetery in German-Jewish autobiographical writings in the Third Reich

Annelies Augustyns conducts a literary analysis of diaries and autobiographies written by Jewish residents of Breslau, the former capital of Lower Silesia, during the Nazi regime. With the seizure of power by Hitler, the Jews were deprived of their normal lives, losing their jobs, restricted in their movements, subject to attack on the streets. It was only within the confines of the Jewish cemetery that they managed to find a sense of community and, paradoxically, a mode of “normalcy”. In this context, the Jewish cemetery became much more than just a liminal place in the literal definition of the word as a transitory place between life and death. Augustyns focuses on how the cemetery became an important transitory dwelling place where a different reality could be found and alternative perspectives facilitated.

ISBN:978-1-5275-7596-7

Jaar van publicatie:2021

Trefwoorden:H3 Book chapter

Toegankelijkheid:Closed