Being German Canadian : History, Memory, Generations, Paperback by Freund, Al...

Description: Being German Canadian : History, Memory, Generations, Paperback by Freund, Alexander (EDT), ISBN 088755847X, ISBN-13 9780887558474, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Scholars working in history and related disciplines mainly in Canada provide eight essays that consider German Canadians in the context of memory and generation, particularly how difficult and painful it has been for generations of German Canadians to remember and speak publicly about the two world wars. They explore German immigrants' memories of World War II; Canadians' active forgetting of Prime Minister Mackenzie King's visit to Germany in 1937; German-Jewish refugees' struggles to find a place in the larger Jewish-Canadian society of the 1940s and 1950s, and comparisons to the identity formation of refugees in Israel; German-Canadian historian Gottlieb Leibbrandt's silence about his activities during World War II; the power struggles within the Lutheran Church in the 1960s, as pastors who were immigrants or children of immigrants aimed to keep churches German-speaking, while students advocated for the introduction of English to speed up integration; the construction of the sense of self of recent German immigrants in the 2000s; how second and third-generation German Canadians avoid talking about the Holocaust; and silences among third, fourth, and fifth-generation German-Canadian about their female ancestors' wartime experiences. Distributed in the US by Longleaf Services Inc. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()

Price: 30.47 USD

Location: Jessup, Maryland

End Time: 2025-01-20T06:11:06.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD