De-Integrate! : A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century by Max Czollek (2023, Hardcover)

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ISBN-101632063182

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Book TitleDe-Integrate! : a Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAsia / General

Publication Year2023

GenreHistory

AuthorMax Czollek

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.6 Oz

Item Length7.2 in

Item Width5.4 in

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LCCN2022-943003

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsPraise for De-Integrate! "The continuing influence of the past on the present--and what Czollek sees as Germany's collective reluctance to acknowledge it--informs his latest book, De-Integrate! , a collection of politically charged essays and historical reflections that came out in August 2018 and is still making waves in the country. In it, he argues that Germany, eager to shed its past, isn't reckoning with the rise of anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism. And with the book's title, he is calling on people who have been ostracized or singled out to stop trying to fit in and embrace their 'otherness' so Germany can become a truly multicultural, pluralistic society." --Valeriya Safronova, The New York Times "This 31-year-old author writes scathingly and entertainingly, he provokes and puzzles. De-Integrate! is an important contribution to the sometimes hysterical debate on integration" --Manfred Koch, Neue Zurcher Zeitung " De-Integrate! is a well-researched, stringently argued, sometimes even funny polemic, which has come at just the right time." --Ulrich Gutmair, taz "An important book." --Literatur Spiegel "Unapologetic and pugnacious, loud and sexy." --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "Sharp-tongued and entertaining, provocative and irritating." -- Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag "A renunciation (...) of the German self-adulation as world champions when it comes to a culture of remembrance." --Die Zeit

Dewey Decimal305.892/4043

Table Of ContentIntroduction: De-Integrate Yourselves! Chapter 1 The Theater of Memory: Staged Remembrance Chapter 2 Normality Reloaded: Schlaaaaand Chapter 3 The Early Years: Integrating Nazis Chapter 4 Integration Theater! Leitkultur and Ministries of Heimat Chapter 5 That German Desire: On the Function of the Jews Chapter 6 Wowschwitz, or: Can We Laugh about Auschwitz? Chapter 7 Alternatives for Germans: What We Can Learn from the AfD Chapter 8 "No Integration": De-Integration and Its Progenitors Chapter 9 Like They Do in Babylon: On Jewish Diversity Chapter 10 Inglourious Poets: Revenge as Self-Empowerment Chapter 11 Ahasver's Hell: Or, Things Will Never Be 'All Good' Again Chapter 12 The Beginning Is Nigh: DE-INTEGRATI Acknowledgments References

SynopsisA controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the past--and a handbook for minorities on how to embrace their difference and resist rising nationalism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and racism. Max Czollek's De-Integrate! is a polemical, often humorous examination of Jewish life in contemporary Germany that speaks to the position of minorities the world over. Rooted in sociological theory, the book offers an engaging and approachable critique of Germany's much-lauded traditions of memory culture and Vergangenheitsbewältigung --its "successful" negotiation of its Nazi past.Although modern Reunified Germany presents itself as having overcome historical trauma and integrated its now diverse, multicultural society, Czollek argues that this public image is merely a "Theater of Integration": showcasing those minoritized stories to bolster Germany's positive self-image, while sidelining the true potential of the country's radical diversity. Czollek posits that today's German minorities must embrace their differences and "de-integrate" from mainstream society in order to counter the rise of rightwing nationalism.On the one hand a stirring look at integration, belonging, and cultural diversity, and on the other a passionate denunciation of bigotry and virulent nationalism, De-Integrate! speaks across cultural, racial, and national divisions and points to a livelier future for all of us., A controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the past--and a handbook for minorities on how to embrace their difference and resist rising nationalism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and racism. Max Czollek's De-Integrate! is a polemical, often humorous examination of Jewish life in contemporary Germany that speaks to the position of minorities the world over. Rooted in sociological theory, the book offers an engaging and approachable critique of Germany's much-lauded traditions of memory culture and Vergangenheitsbewältigung --its "successful" negotiation of its Nazi past. Although modern Reunified Germany presents itself as having overcome historical trauma and integrated its now diverse, multicultural society, Czollek argues that this public image is merely a "Theater of Integration": showcasing those minoritized stories to bolster Germany's positive self-image, while sidelining the true potential of the country's radical diversity. Czollek posits that today's German minorities must embrace their differences and "de-integrate" from mainstream society in order to counter the rise of rightwing nationalism. On the one hand a stirring look at integration, belonging, and cultural diversity, and on the other a passionate denunciation of bigotry and virulent nationalism, De-Integrate! speaks across cultural, racial, and national divisions and points to a livelier future for all of us.

LC Classification NumberDS148