Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Emigre Autobiography

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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 Doeblin'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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• História social e cultural
• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
• Biografias coletados
• Estudos judaicos
• Holocausto

religious conversion; conversion narratives; Holocaust testimony; modern Jewish identity; spiritual autobiography; Holocaust memoir; religious responses to the Holocaust; Christian converts from Judaism