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Subcontractors of Guilt

By Esra Özyürek

Subcontractors of Guilt Books

Subcontractors of Guilt

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At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture-not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform. Since then, Turkish- and Arab-Germans have been considered as the prime obstacles to German national reconciliation with its Nazi past, a status shared to a lesser degree by Germans from the formerly socialist East Germany. It is for this reason that the German government, German NGOs, and Muslim minority groups have begun to design Holocaust education and anti-Semitism prevention programs specifically tailored for Muslim immigrants and refugees, so that they, too, can learn the lessons of the Holocaust and embrace Germany's most important postwar democratic political values. Based on ethnographic research conducted over a decade, Subcontractors of Guilt explores when, how, and why Muslim Germans have moved to the center of Holocaust memory discussions. Esra Özyürek argues that German society "subcontracts" guilt of the Holocaust to new minority immigrant arrivals, with the false promise of this process leading to inclusion into the German social contract and equality with other members of postwar German society. By focusing on the recently formed but already sizable sector of Muslim-only anti-Semitism and Holocaust education programs, this book explores the paradoxes of postwar German national identity.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
266
Release Date:
2023-04-04
Publication Date:
2023-04-04
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1503635562
ISBN13:
9781503635562
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
414 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
226 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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